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This book is about the underlying mechanism and clinical application of T cell vaccination in experimental and human autoimmune diseases. The book provides an overview of the most recent advances on the subject, in particular with relevance to recent clinical trials demonstrating the therapeutic potential of T cell vaccination in human autoimmune diseases. The scope of this book covers 1) potential mechanisms involved in human autoimmune pathologies; 2) the functional and structural characteristics of pathogenic T cells and their relevance in designing specific immune intervention; 3) the practical procedure used in recent T cell vaccination trials; 4) T-T interactions induced by T cell vaccination.