| Contributing Authors | p. x |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction--The History of Renal Immunopathology | p. 1 |
| Process-Related Pathophysiology | p. 13 |
| Normal Immune Responses | p. 15 |
| Immunopathogenesis of Renal Diseases--An Overview | p. 47 |
| Pathophysiology of Progressive Renal Disease | p. 55 |
| Mechanisms of Renal Fibrogenesis | p. 73 |
| The Immune Response and Renal Injury | p. 103 |
| Induction of the Nephritogenic Immune Response | p. 105 |
| Immunogenics of Renal Disease | p. 105 |
| Immunologic Tolerance and the Induction of Autoimmunity | p. 139 |
| Renal Expression of MHC Antigens | p. 171 |
| Antigen Presentation by Renal Parenchyma: Protection or Promotion from Renal Injury | p. 195 |
| Nephritogenic Antigens in the Cellular or Extracellular Membrane | p. 207 |
| Mechanisms of Immune Injury | p. 225 |
| Pathophysiology of Acute Immune Injury | p. 225 |
| Development and Expression of Nephritogenic T Cells | p. 241 |
| Molecular Structure and Expression of Nephritogenic Autoantibodies | p. 257 |
| Mechanisms of Immune Complex Formation and Deposition in Renal Structures | p. 277 |
| Apoptosis in Acute Renal Inflammation | p. 297 |
| Mechanisms of Allograft Rejection | p. 321 |
| Mediation of Immune Renal Injury | p. 345 |
| Humoral Mediators of Immune Injury | p. 347 |
| Glomerular Injury Due to Antibody Alone | p. 347 |
| Complement and Complement Regulatory Proteins in Renal Disease | p. 367 |
| Proteases and Oxidants in Glomerular Injury | p. 395 |
| Growth Factors and Cytokines | p. 415 |
| Endothelin and Nitric Oxide | p. 465 |
| Eicosanoids | p. 489 |
| Coagulation and Thrombosis in Immunologic Renal Diseases | p. 511 |
| Cellular Mediators of Immune Injury | p. 521 |
| Chemoattractants and Chemokines in Renal Disease | p. 521 |
| Leukocyte Adhesion | p. 551 |
| Neutrophils | p. 579 |
| Platelets | p. 593 |
| Macrophages in Immune Renal Injury | p. 609 |
| The Formation of Glomerular Crescents | p. 633 |
| Glomerular Mesangial Cells | p. 657 |
| The Glomerular Podocyte | p. 693 |
| Animal Models of Immunologic Renal Diseases | p. 709 |
| Immune Models of Glomerular Injury | p. 711 |
| Immune Models of Tubulointerstitial Injury | p. 779 |
| Patient Evaluation and General Considerations | p. 815 |
| Clinical Evaluation and Management of Hematuria and Proteinuria | p. 815 |
| Morphologic Evaluation of Immune Renal Disease | p. 845 |
| Interpretation of Clinical Studies of Renal Disease | p. 871 |
| Primary Glomerular Diseases | p. 899 |
| Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis | p. 899 |
| Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy | p. 931 |
| Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease | p. 949 |
| Minimal-Change Nephrotic Syndrome | p. 969 |
| Mesangioproliferative Disease | p. 987 |
| Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis | p. 1001 |
| Membranous Nephropathy | p. 1029 |
| Secondary Glomerular Diseases | p. 1057 |
| Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | p. 1057 |
| Renal Vasculitis | p. 1105 |
| Henoch-Schonlein Purpura | p. 1127 |
| Idiopathic Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis | p. 1141 |
| Amyloidosis, the Dysproteinemias, and Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy | p. 1155 |
| Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Anti-Phospholipid Antibody Syndromes | p. 1173 |
| Clinical and Immunopathogenic Aspects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Renal Diseases | p. 1203 |
| Recurrent and De Novo Glomerular Disease in Renal Transplants | p. 1225 |
| Secondary Glomerulonephridities | p. 1247 |
| Interstitial Nephritis | p. 1269 |
| Acute Interstitial Nephritis | p. 1269 |
| Subject Index | p. 1283 |
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