**Meet the editor**

Professor Yoshinobu Eishi, MD, MedScD, PhD,Chiar, Department of Human Pathology Director, Division of Surgical Pathology,Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) has graduated from Medical Faculty, TMDU in 1978. He became a Doctor of Medical Science ( MedScD ) in 1982 and received his PhD from the Department of Immunology, John Curtin School of Medical

Research, Australian National University in 1990. From February 1992 he was a Lecturer at the Department of Pathology, TMDU, from April 1994 an Associate Professor at the Division of Surgical Pathology, TMDU Hospital, from April 2000 an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Pathology, TMDU, from January 2007 a Professor at the Department of Human Pathology, TMDU and from April 2007 he became a Director of the Division of Surgical Pathology, TMDU Hospital.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Yoshinobu Eishi

**Sarcoidosis 35** Mitsuteru Akahoshi

Chapter 4 **Genetics of Sarcoidosis 79**

**Section 3 Clinical Features 107**

**Section 2 Genetic Factors 51**

Chapter 1 **Propionibacterium acnes as a Cause of Sarcoidosis 3**

Chapter 2 **The Role of Type I IFN and TNF-α in the Pathogenesis of**

Chapter 3 **Genetic Factors Involved in Sarcoidosis 53** Birendra P. Sah and Michael C. Iannuzzi

Nabeel Y. Hamzeh and Lisa A. Maier

Chapter 5 **Clinical Manifestations of Sarcoidosis 109**

Chapter 6 **Airways Disease in Sarcoidosis 145** Adam S. Morgenthau

Kentaro Watanabe

Luis Jara-Palomares, Candela Caballero-Eraso, Cesar Gutiérrez,

Alvaro Donate and Jose Antonio Rodríguez-Portal

Chapter 7 **Physiological Manifestation in Pulmonary Sarcoidosis 165**

**Section 1 Pathogenesis 1**
