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edited by M. G. Marrosu, C. Cianchetti, and B. Tavolato, 169 pp, $50, New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1990.

David H. Mattson, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Rochester, NY

Arch Neurol. 1991;48(2):129.

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This book represents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Trends in Neuroimmunology, Cagliari, Italy, in 1988. Based on this book, the symposium was excellent and would have been well worth attending. The authors of chapters are a distinguished international group of neuroimmunologists, mostly from Italy and other parts of Europe.

The book is organized into chapters on four broad areas representing current aspects of intense interest in neuroimmunology—humoral immunity, cellular immunity, immune functions of glia, and central nervous system immune diseases. Chapters describing work in human and animal systems are intermingled in a mutually reinforcing and provocative manner. Most of the chapters are original research reports, but two are review articles.

Several of the chapters describing original research reports are excellent, state-of-the-art accounts, some of which have subsequently either partially or completely appeared in print in refereed journals. These include chapters on antioligodendrocyte autoreactive T cells, human fetal brain . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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