TAILIEUCHUNG - AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES – CONTRIBUTING FACTORS, SPECIFIC CASES OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, AND STEM CELL AND OTHER THERAPIES

Autoimmune disease represents a group of more than 60 different chronic autoimmune diseases that affect approximately 6% of the population. It is the third major category of illness in the United States and many industrialized countries, following heart disease and cancer. Autoimmune diseases arise when one’s immune system actively targets and destroys self tissue resulting in clinical disease. Common examples include Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis. While different in clinical features and may involve different organs, the underlying mechanism is the failure of immune tolerance of the adaptive immune system | AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES - CONTRIBUTING FACTORS SPECIFIC CASES OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND STEM CELL AND OTHER THERAPIES Edited by James Chan Autoimmune Diseases - Contributing Factors Specific Cases of Autoimmune Diseases and Stem Cell and Other Therapies http 2896 Edited by James Chan Contributors Marcus Muller Rachael Terry Stephen D. Miller Daniel R. Getts Ahmad Massoud Amir Hossein Massoud Nicola Gagliani Samuel Huber Dan Li Miranda Piccioni Zhimei Gao Chen Chen Zuojia Chen Jia Nie Zhao Shan Yangyang Li Andy Tsun Bin Li Reginald Halaby Alla Arefieva Marina Krasilshchikova Olga Zatsepina Anna Pituch-Noworolska Katarzyna Zwonarz . Peron D. Oliveira W. N. Brandão A. Fickinger A. P. Ligeiro de Oliveira L. V. Rizzo . Câmara Reuben Mari Valenzuela Paayal Patel Jorge C. Kattah Marco Wiltgen Gernot P. Tilz Eun Wha Choi Jesus Ciriza Jennifer O. Manilay Rizwanul Haque Fengyang Lei Jianxun Song Katerina Chatzidionysiou . Baranov . Alexeeva . Namazova-Baranova . Bzarova . Valiyeva . Denisova . Isayeva . Chomakhidze . Chistyakova . Sleptsova . Mitenko . Zelikovich . Kurilenko . Semikina . Anikin . Stepanchenko . Taybulatov . Starikova . Dvoryakovskiy . Ryazanov Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9 51000 Rijeka Croatia Copyright 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which allows users to download copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes as long as the author and publisher are properly credited which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech authors have the right to republish it in whole or part in any publication of which they are the author and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in

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