ACUPUNCTURE – CLINICAL PRACTICE, PARTICULAR TECHNIQUES AND SPECIAL ISSUES

This book is produced not as a comprehensive review of current understanding of the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis but rather as a series of well selected individual update chapters that provide snapshots of the breadth and depth of renal science, as it exists today. Thus, chapters cover the dual roles of the innate immune system in mediating disease and initiating the immune response (Yahuan Lou), while others focus on both the humoral and cellular arms of the adaptive immune system (Tetsuhiro Tanaka et al., Mihály Józsi) and particularly the recent advances in understanding how auto-antibodies mediate membranous nephropathy (Gian Marco Ghiggeri et al., Chia-Chao Wu et al.)....