Bruce Kaplan & Gilbert J. Burkhart 
Immunotherapy in Transplantation [PDF ebook] 
Principles and Practice

List of Contributors.
Preface.
Section 1: Transplantation Immunobiology.
1 The Immune Response to a Transplanted Organ: An Overview
(Fadi G. Lakkis).
2 Antigen Presentation in Transplantation (Martin H.
Oberbarnscheidt and Fadi G. Lakkis).
3 The T Cell Response to Transplantation Antigens (Didier A.
Mandelbrot, Bryna Burrell, Mohamed H. Sayegh and Peter S.
Heeger).
4 The B Cell Response to Transplantation Antigens (Roger
Sciammas, Anita S. Chong, Robert B. Colvin).
5 The Innate Response to a Transplanted Organ (Daniel
R. Goldstein and Laurence A. Turka).
6 Regulation of the Alloimmune Response (Kathryn J Wood and
Terry B Strom).
Section 2: Transplantation Clinical Pharmacology.
7 Pharmacokinetics (Raman Venkataramanan).
8 Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for Immunosuppressive Agents
(Michael C. Milone and Leslie M. J. Shaw).
9 Pharmacometrics: Concepts and Applications to Drug Development
(Mallika Lala and Jogarao V. S. Gobburu).
10 Pharmacogenomics and Organ Transplantation (Gilbert J.
Burckart and Richard M. Watanabe).
11 Study Design/process of development: Clinical studies
(Richard D. Mamelok).
Section 3: Agents.
12 Corticosteroids (Olivia Blume, Sarah E. Yost and Bruce
Kaplan).
13 Azathioprine (Barry J. Browne).
14 Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Properties of
Mycophenolate (David Hager, Arjang Djamali, Bruce
Kaplan).
15 Cyclosporine: Molecular Action to Clinical Therapeutics
(Bradford Strijack and Paul A. Keown).
16 Tacrolimus (William E. Fitzsimmons).
17 Inhibitors of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (Barry D.
Kahan).
18 Inhibitors Targeting JAK3 (Gary Chan, Paul S.
Changelian).
19 Cyclophosphamide (John J. Curtis).
20 Application of antisense technology in medicine (Stanislaw
M. Stepkowski, Beata Mierzejewska, Frank C. Bennett).
21 The role of ganciclovir in transplantation (Lyndsey J.
Bowman and Daniel C. Brennan).
22 Transplantation Immunotherapy with Anti-Thymocyte Globulin
(ATG) (John L. Dzuris, Christian Bloy, Melanie Ruzek, John M.
Williams).
23 The Role of Alemtuzumab in Solid Organ Transplantation
(Avinash Agarwal, David Bruno and Stuart J.
Knechtle).
24 Rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody (Mark D.
Pescovitz).
25 The Anti-Interleukin 2 Receptor Antibodies (Muna Alnimri
and Flavio Vincenti).
26 Infliximab/ Anti-TNF (Marina Vardanyan, Edward C. Parkin,
Horacio L. Rodriguez Rilo).
27 CTLA4-Ig (Sarah E. Yost and Bruce Kaplan).
28 Combination and Adjuvant Therapies to Facilitate the Efficacy
of Costimulatory Blockade (Swetha K. Srinivasan, Helen L.
Triemer, Allan D. Kirk).
29 Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) a Modulator of Immunity and
Inflammation with Applications in Solid Organ Transplantation
(Stanley C. Jordan, Mieko Toyoda, Joseph Kahwaji, Alice Peng and
Ashley A. Vo).
Index.

Bruce Kaplan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacology, Co-Director UIC Transplant Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Applied Genomics Center, University of Alberta, Canada.
Gilbert Burkhart, Pharm D, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC), San Francisco, USA.
Phil Halloran, MD, Ph D, Professor of Medicine, Director of Nephrology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.