Chemokine Biology - Basic Research and Clinical Application.Vol.1 Immunobiology of Chemokines

Chemokines play an important role in recruiting inflammatory cells into tissues in response to infection and inflammation. They also play an important role in coordinating the movement of T-cells, B-cells and dentritic cells, necessary to generate an immune response (response to injury, allergens, antigens, invading microorganisms). They selectively attract leukocytes to inflammatory foci, inducing both cell migration and activation. They are involved in various diseases, like atherosclerosis, lung and skin inflammation, multiple sclerosis, or HIV.
Volume 1 of this two-volume set discusses the immunobiology of chemokines. It is divided into two parts: a) cellular targets in innate and adaptive immunity, and b) effector cell traffic-unrelated functions. Together with volume 2, which discusses the pathophysiology of chemokines, both volumes give a comprehensive overview of chemokine biology.

 

Summary

Chemokines play an important role in recruiting inflammatory cells into tissues in response to infection and inflammation. They also play an important role in coordinating the movement of T-cells, B-cells and dentritic cells, necessary to generate an immune response (response to injury, allergens, antigens, invading microorganisms). They selectively attract leukocytes to inflammatory foci, inducing both cell migration and activation. They are involved in various diseases, like atherosclerosis, lung and skin inflammation, multiple sclerosis, or HIV.


Volume 1 of this two-volume set discusses the immunobiology of chemokines. It is divided into two parts: a) cellular targets in innate and adaptive immunity, and b) effector cell traffic-unrelated functions. Together with volume 2, which discusses the pathophysiology of chemokines, both volumes give a comprehensive overview of chemokine biology.

 

Product details

• Assisted by: Bernhard Moser (Editor), Gordon L Letts (Editor), Kuldeep Neote (Editor), L. G. Letts (Editor), L. Gordon Letts (Editor), Gordon Letts (Editor), L Gordon Letts (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Basel
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 19.12.2005
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine
• EAN: 9783764368258
• ISBN: 978-3-7643-6825-8
• Pages: 208
• Illustrations: XI, 208 p. 22 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Height (packing): 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 646 g
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research; Progress in Inflammation Research (PIR); Progress in Inflammation Research; Progress in Inflammation Research (PIR)
• Subjects: Migration, B, Research, Zellbiologie (Zytologie), Immunology, Pharmakologie, PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, Pharmacology, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cellular biology (cytology), Cell Biology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Opioid, tissue, signal transduction