BookKazuhiko Takehara, Manabu Fujimoto, Masataka Kuwana, editors.
Contents:
1. Fibrosis: overview
2. Autoimmunity in systemic sclerosis: overview
3. Endothelial progenitor cells
4. Animal models of systemic sclerosis
5. Genetics of systemic sclerosis
6. Role of the interleukin-1 family in the fibrogenic phenotype in systemic sclerosis
7. Interleukin-6 in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis
8. Epigenetics
9. Transforming growth factor-β and connective tissue growth factor
10. Endothelin
11. The role of B cells in systemic sclerosis
12. Fli1
13. Biomarker
14. Autoantibodies in systemic sclerosis.