Research Catalog

Title

The biology and pathology of innate immunity mechanisms / edited by Yona Keisari and Itzkak Ofek.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Innate Immunity (1999 : Zikhron Yaʻaḳov, Israel)
• Keisari, Yona.
• Ofek, Itzhak.

Description

x, 328 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 479

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 479.

Subject

• Cytokines > immunology
• Immune System > pathology
• Immune System > physiology
• Immunity, Innate > physiology
• Killer Cells, Natural > immunology

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of the Bathsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Innate Immunity, held October 10-15, 1999 in Zichron Yaakov, Israel"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Mannose receptor and scavenger receptor: two macrophage pattern recognition receptors with diverse functions in tissue homeostasis and host defense / S. A. Linehan, L. Martinez-Pomares and S. Gordon -- 2. Complement receptor 3 (CR3): a public transducer of innate immunity signals in macrophages / E. Yefenof -- 3. The role of C-type lectins in the innate immunity against pulmonary pathogens / I. Ofek, E. Crouch and Y. Keisari -- 4. Modulation of nitric oxide production by lung surfactant in alveolar macrophages / M. Kalina, H. Blau and S. Riklis / [et al.] -- 5. Development of chimeric collectins with enhanced activity against influenza A virus / K. L. Hartshorn, M. R. White and R. A. B. Ezekowitz / [et al.] -- 6. Initial steps in Streptococcus pneumoniae interaction with and pathogenicity to the host / M. Shani-Sekler, S. Lifshitz and I. Hillel / [et al.] --
• 7. Role of cytokines in the maturation and function of macrophages: effect of GM-CSF and IL-4 / Y. Keisari, G. Robin and L. Nissimov / [et al.] -- 8. Mast cell modulation of the innate immune response to enterobacterial infection / S. N. Abraham and R. Malaviya -- 9. The NADPH oxidase diaphorase activity in permeabilized human neutrophils and granulocytic like PLB-985 cells / I. Pessach and R. Levy -- 10. Activation of cytosolic phospholipase A[subscript 2] by opsonized zymosan in human neutrophils requires both ERK and p38 MAP-kinase / I. Hazan-Halevy and R. Levy -- 11. Cytosolic phospholipase A[subscript 2] is required for the activation of the NADPH oxidase associated H[superscript +] channel in phagocyte-like cells / R. Levy, A. Lowenthal and R. Dana -- 12. The role of NK cells in innate immunity / N. Lieberman and O. Mandelboim -- 13. Similarities and dissimilarities between humans and mice looking at adhesion molecules defects / A. Etzioni, C. M. Doerschuk and J. M. Harlan --
• 14. The role of dendritic cells at the early stages of Leishmania infection / H. Moll -- 15. DNA-based vaccines: the role of dendritic cells in antigen presentation / L. Paul and A. Porgador -- 16. Distinct patterns of IL-1[alpha] and IL-1[beta] organ distribution - a possible basis for organ mechanisms of innate immunity / M. Hacham, S. Argov and R. M. White / [et al.] -- 17. Structure and biology of cathelicidins / M. Zanetti, R. Gennaro and M. Scocchi / [et al.] -- 18. Structure activity relationship study of polymyxin B nonapeptide / H. Tsubery, I. Ofek and S. Cohen / [et al.] -- 19. The clinical significance of neutrophil dysfunction / B. Wolach, R. Gavrieli and D. Ross -- 20. Clinical significance of functional aberrations in macrophage and NK cells, in type-1 cytokines and in lectin-binding molecules / Z. Handzel -- 21. Klebsiella infections in the immunocompromised host / H. Sahly, R. Podschun and U. Ullmann --
• 22. Macrophage - recognized molecules of apoptotic cells are expressed at higher levels in AKR lymphoma of aged as compared to young mice / O. Itzhaki, E. Skutelsky and T. Kaptzan / [et al.] -- 23. Sensitivity to macrophages decreases with tumor progression in the AKR lymphoma / T. Kaptzan, E. Skutelsky and M. Michowitz / [et al.] -- 24. Opposing effects of IL-1[alpha] and IL-1[beta] on malignancy patterns: Tumor cell-associated IL-1[alpha] potentiates anti-tumor immune responses and tumor regression, whereas IL-1[beta] potentiates invasiveness / R. N. Apte, T. Dvorkin and X. Song / [et al.].

ISBN

0306464098

LCCN

00035715

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries