title: [Report on the 34th meeting of the German Clinical Immunology Workgroup, Frankfurt, 03.-04.11.2006].
abstract: The annual meeting of the Clinical Immunology Workgroup focused on autoimmune vasculitides. The role of innate immunity, T- and B-cells, and innovative therapies for autoimmune vasculitides was discussed. Further topics of the meeting were the role of endothelial microparticles, ghrelin and leptin, regulatory and effector-memory T-cells in ANCA-associated vasculitides, as well as the lethal midline granuloma, intracytoplasmic cytokine-profile in Behcet's disease, autoantibodies in rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis nodosa with cranial manifestation, ILT6 as genetic marker in multiple sclerosis and Sjögren's syndrome, alpha-fodrin autoantibodies in multiple sclerosis, interferon-g autoantibodies in a patient with atypical mycobacteriosis, and autoreactive T-cells in murine lupus.
authors.affiliation: Poliklinik für Rheumatologie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Aries
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Witte
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lamprecht
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D012955:Societies, Medical