**Meet the editor**

Dr. Seyyed Shamsadin Athari (DVM, MPH, PhD) is Assistant Professor of Immunology in the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zanjan, University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. He has an allergy and asthma toxicology postdoc and an asthma management and controlling network fellowship. He has published more than 70 manuscripts in international journals

and edited/coauthored more than 25 books in the fields of immunology, allergy and asthma. Dr. Athari is also on the editorial board of more than 50 international journals in medical sciences, has a number of inventions in medical sciences and has recorded gene sequences in gene banks. He has been invited to be keynote speaker at more than 30 international congresses and symposiums and has received scientific awards from different scientific societies as young top researcher and young scientist.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Autoimmunity 1**

**Radiation 103**

Wong and Liang Liu

Maglio

Sayed

Chapter 1 **Immune System Disorders: Hypersensitivity and**

José Luis Muñoz-Carrillo, Flor Pamela Castro-García, Francisca Chávez-Rubalcaba, Isabel Chávez-Rubalcaba, José Luis Martínez-

Jorge Augusto Borin Scutti, Luiz R. Travassos and Luiz M. Vence

Eliana M. Cela, Mariela L. Paz, Juliana Leoni and Daniel H. González

Mohamed K. Mekhemar, Christof E. Dörfer and Karim M. Fawzy El-

**the Implication on Novel Interventions for Refractoriness 149** Simon Wing-Fai Mok, Betty Yuen-Kwan Law, Vincent Kam-Wai

Rodríguez and Marcela Elizabeth Hernández-Ruiz

Chapter 2 **Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Immune Monitoring 31**

Chapter 3 **New Strategies to Improve Therapeutic Vaccines 67**

Chapter 5 **Immune System Modulation Produced by Ultraviolet**

Chapter 6 **Toll-Like Receptors: The Key of Immunotherapy in MSCs 123**

Chapter 7 **Immunotherapeutic Approaches of Rheumatoid Arthritis and**

Chapter 8 **Present and Future Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease 177**

Hisashi Nagase and Kohzo Nakayama

Chunsong Yu and Haipeng Liu

Chapter 4 **Therapeutic Potentials of IL-10 versus IL-12 89** Vishakha Bhurani and Sarat Kumar Dalai

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Chapter 8 **Present and Future Therapies for Alzheimer's Disease 177** Hisashi Nagase and Kohzo Nakayama

## Chapter 9 **Serological Biomarkers for the Prediction and Detection of Human Papillomavirus Associated Cancers 199** Lourdes Gutierrez-Xicotencatl, Azucena Salazar-Piña, Lilia Chihu-

Amparan and Adolfo Pedroza-Saavedra
