Research Catalog

Title

Vascular adhesion molecules and inflammation / Jeremy D. Pearson, editor.

Publication

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pearson, Jeremy D.

Description

ix, 260 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The book will provide an overview of the roles of vascular adhesion molecules in health and disease, with chapters on their cell biology, followed by chapters reviewing their importance in specific disease processes."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Progress in inflammation research

Uniform Title

PIR (Series)

Subjects

• Inflammation
• Inflammation > Mediators
• Cell Adhesion Molecules
• Leucocytes
• Cell adhesion molecules
• Vascular endothelium
• Endothelium, Vascular

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

How early studies of inflammation led to our current views on the roles of vascular adhesion molecules / Jeremy D. Pearson -- Adhesion of leukocytes from flow: The selections and their ligands / Klaus Ley -- Co-operative signaling between leukocytes and endothelium mediating firm attachment / C. Wayne Smith, Alan R. Burns and Scott I. Simon -- Production and presentation of chemokines by endothelial cells / Martha B. Furie -- Platelet-activating factor: A signaling molecule for leukocyte adhesion / Diane E. Lorant, Thomas M. McIntyre and Stephen M. Prescott / [et al.] -- Tight junctions and adherens junctions in endothelial cells: structure and regulation / James M. Staddon and Tetsuaki Hirase -- The role of PECAM in leukocyte emigration / William A. Muller -- Selective lymphocyte migration into secondary lymphoid organs and inflamed tissues / Mark A. Jutila -- Oxidation-reduction sensitive regulation of vascular inflammatory gene expression / Xi-Lin Chen and Russell M. Medford -- Quantification and imaging of vascular adhesion molecule expression in inflammatory diseases in vivo / Tanya Y. Huehns and Dorian O. Haskard -- Leukocyte adhesion and activation in xenografts / Simon C. Robson and David Goodman -- Control of leukocyte adhesion and activation in ischemia-reperfusion injury / Tak Yee Aw and D. Neil Granger -- Control of leukocyte adhesion and activation in atherogenesis / Judith A. Berliner, Devendra K. Vora and Peggy T. Shih.

ISBN

• 3764358009 (alk. paper)
• 0817658009 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99027119

OCLC

• 41278396
• ocm41278396
• SCSB-4787545

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries