Research Catalog

Title

The innate immune response to infection / edited by Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Ruslan Medzhitov, Siamon Gordon.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Kaufmann, S. H. E. (Stefan H. E.)
• Medzhitov, Ruslan.
• Gordon, Siamon.

Description

xv, 465 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subjects

• Immunity, Innate > physiology
• Immunity, Cellular > physiology
• Antibody Formation > physiology
• Natural immunity
• Bacterial Infections > immunology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Evolutionary emergence and interactions among elements of the innate and combinatorial responses / John J. Marchalonis, G. Kerr Whitfield and Samuel F. Schluter -- 2. Drosophila responses to microbial infection : an overview / Jules A. Hoffmann and Petros Ligoxygakis -- 3. Neutrophils : the power within / Taco W. Kuijpers and Dirk Roos -- 4. The biology of macrophages / R. Tedjo Sasmono and David A. Hume -- 5. The regulatory role of dendritic cells in the innate immune response / F. Granucci, S. Feau, I. Zanoni, G. Raimondi, N. Pavelka, C. Vizzardelli and P. Ricciardi-Castagnoli -- 6. Roles of mast cells and basophils in innate immunity / Stephen J. Galli, Devavani Chatterjea and Mindy Tsai -- 7. Innate natural killer cell responses to infection / Wayne M. Yokoyama -- 8. Urinary tract infection as a model for innate mucosal immunity / M. Samuelsson, G. Bergsten, H. Fischer, D. Karpman, I. Leijonliufvud, A. C. Lundstedt, P. Samuelsson, M. L. Svensson, B. Wulli and C. Svanborg -- 9. Paneth cells in innate immunity and intestinal inflammation / Satish Keshav -- 10. Collectins and the acute-phase response / Howard Clark, Thilo Stehle, Alan Ezckewitz and Kenneth Reid -- 11. Complement and its receptors in infection / Admar Verschoor and Michael C. Carroll -- 12. Coagulation and innate immunity / Charles T. Esmon -- 13. Toll-like receptors : ligands and signaling / Kiyoshi Takeda and Shizuo Akira -- 14. Toll-like receptors and controls of adaptive immunity / Gregory M. Barton, Chandrashekhar Pasare and Ruslan Medzhitov -- 15. Antigen-presenting cell receptors and innate immunity : diversity, recognition, and responses / Siamon Gordon -- 16. The function of leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors in self-tolerance, viral recognition, and regulation of adaptive responses / Marco Colonna and Winfried Barchet -- 17. Antimicrobial peptides : effectors of innate immunity / Michael Zasloff -- 18. Antimicrobial proteins / Tomas Ganz and Robert I. Lehrer -- 19. Reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen metabolites as effector molecules against infectious pathogens / Christian Bogdan -- 20. Chemokines / Bernhard Moser -- 21. Lipids / K. Frank Austen and Yoshihide Kanaoka -- 22. Role of innate immunity in bacterial infection / Peter Seiler, Ulrich Steinhoff and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann.

ISBN

1555812910

LCCN

2004005850

OCLC

• ocm54768331
• SCSB-5173451

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries