IVIG Therapy Today / Edition 1

by Mark Ballow

Overview

It has been little more than a century since Emil von Behring and his colleagues (1890) showed that the blood of tetanus-immune rabbits contained a factor that could be transferred to nonimmune animals to protect them against tetanus. These observations, together with the work of Paul Ehrlich, started scientists on the long and complex path to our present understanding of the humoral, or B-cell, immune system. These early studies led to Nobel prize awards for von Behring (1901 ) and Ehrlich (1908), each of whom contributed much to our knowledge of the B-cell immune system. In the early 20th century it was recognized that the serum of individuals who had recently suffered an infection contained a protective humoral factor that could be transferred to a nonimmune person, thereafter affording that individual protection against the infectious agent that had caused disease. In 1933 McKhann and Chu reported that a placental extract containing the globulin fraction could modify measles. However, it was not until 1939 that Tiselius and Kabat demonstrated that the antibodies responsible for protection against these infectious disorders resided within the gammaglobulin plasma fraction. In a major step forward, Cohn in 1944 established a method for the fractionation and purification of this plasma gammaglobulin fraction. These procedures, which are based on cold ethanol precipitation of plasma, produce a readily adaptable, large-scale fractionation procedure that is still utilized to this day in the preparation of commercial gammaglobulin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896032231
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	04/15/1992
Series:	Allergy and Immunology , #2
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Clinical Use of Immune Serum Globulin as Replacement Therapy in Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency Syndromes.- Current Status of Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Preventing or Treating Neonatal Bacterial Infections.- The Potential Use of Monoclonal Antibodies as Therapeutic Modalities in Neonatal Infection.- Immune Deficiencies in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Multiple Myeloma.- IVIG in the Treatment of Children with Acute and Chronic Idio-pathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and the Autoimmune Cytopenias.- IVIG Therapy in Neonatal Isoimmune Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Alloimmunization Thrombocytopenia.- The Clinical Efficacy of IVGG in Kawasaki Disease.- The Immunoregulatory Effects of IVIG in Kawasaki Disease and Other Autoimmune Diseases.- The Role of IVIG in the Management of Patients with Antiphospholipid Antibodies and Recurrent Pregnancy Losses.- The Use of IVIG in Neurological Disease.- Asthma: A Role for IVIG Therapy?.

Editorial Reviews

Also published as Clinical reviews in allergy, v.10, nos.1/2. Eleven contributions organized in two major parts present reviews of primary and acquired humoral/B-cell immune deficiencies, featuring IVIG as replacement therapy, then explore the immunomodulatory effects of IVIG in autoimmune disorders. Nicely produced on coated stock and indexed (unlike many cloth issues of journals). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Dr Ballow has assembled and outstanding collection of state-of-the-art information, making IVIG Therapy Today and essential guide for specialists in clinical and experimental immunotherapy.-Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

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