Immunology and Pathology

Friday, Feb. 12

Oral Abstract Presentations: Immunology/Pathology

Chairs: Susumu Furukawa, Ube, Japan; Robert P. Sundel, Boston, MA

Clonally Related IgA Sequences in a Vascular cDNA Library From a Fatal Acute Kawasaki Syndrom

Anne H. Rowley, Carrie A. Eckerley, Stanford T. Shulman, Susan C. Baker. Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

Northwestern University Medical School, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Gamma Globulin Treatment of Kawasaki Disease May Target a Chemokine, Monocyte Chemotactic and Activating Factor

Masaru Terai, Toshiaki Jibiki, Akihisa Harada, Yuya Terashima, Kumi Yasukawa, Shigeru Tateno, Hiromichi Hamada, Shinji Oana, Hiroo Niimi, Kouji Matsushima

Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kawasaki Disease: A Maturational Defect in Immune Responsiveness

Taco W. Kuijpers, Albert Wiegman, Ren‚ A.W. van Lier, Marijke E.L. Roos, Pauline M.E. Ottenkamp, for the Holland/Flevoland Kawasaki Disease Study Group

Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CLB-Sanquin, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Genetic Origin of IgG Antibodies Specifically Bound by Intravenous Immunoglobulin Preparations

Peter Fischer, Nina Jendreyko, Heike Lerch, Stephan Leucht, Martina M. Uttenreuther-Fischer, Gerhard Gaedicke

Charit‚ Children's Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Vascular Remodeling Factors in Kawasaki Disease: Matrix Metalloproteinases and Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases

Koichi Sakata, Zenshiro Onouchi, Kenji Hamaoka, Yasutoshi Yamamoto

Children's Research Hospital, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Peripheral Blood Monocytes/Macrophages Subpopulation and Helper T-Cell Subset in Kawasaki Disease

Tomoyo Matsubara, Kumiko Katayama, Takashi Matsuoka, Motoki Fujiwara, Mayumi Koga, Susumu Furukawa

Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan

Moderators: Marian Melish, Honolulu, HI; Eeve Salo, Helsinki, Finland

Poster Discussants: Etiology and Pathogenesis

Mary Glode, Denver, CO; Shunzou Chiba, Sapporo, Japan

Poster Discussants: Immunology/Pathology

Shiro Naoe, Tokyo, Japan; Earl D. Silverman, Toronto, Canada

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