Description: 1 The role of T cells in the immunopathogenesis of the connective tissue diseases: Rheumatoid arthritis as the paradigm.- 2 B cells and rheumatoid factors in rheumatoid arthritis.- 3 The mononuclear phagocyte and rheumatoid arthritis.- 4 The HLA association with rheumatoid arthritis.- 5 Cytokines and inflammatory arthritis.- 6 Adhesion molecules involved in leukocyte--endothelial cell interactions.- 7 The complement system and connective tissue disease.- 8 The acute phase response.- 9 Animal models of systemic lupus erythematosus.- 10 Animal models of arthritis.- 11 Lyme arthritis: Pathogenetic principles emerging from studies in man and mouse.- 12 Retroviral arthritis in animals and man.- 13 Autoantibodies against DNA.- 14 Immunology of antiphospholipid antibodies.- 15 Autoantigens in connective tissue diseases.- 16 Sjgren's syndrome: From polyclonal B cell activation to monoclonal B cell proliferation.- 17 Immunotherapy.- 18 Immune reactivity against heat shock proteins and arthritis.

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