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.)....
