Published December, 2011
By Guido Kroemer and Carlos Martinez-A.
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In any movement of their life, immune cells, especially T and B lymphocytes, are confronted with an essential choice: to continue their existence or to commit a sort of metabolic suicide that is referred to as apoptosis or programmed cell death.

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Published December, 2011
By Richard W. Moyer and Peter C. Turner
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The purpose of this volume is to highlight some current areas of poxvirus research which are likely to be particularly fruitful in the upcoming few years.

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Published December, 2011
By Hilary Koprowski, Bernhard Dietzschold and Charles E. Rupprecht
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Lyssaviruses are the etiological agents of rabies, one of the oldest documented and feared maladies in medical history. Yet, despite these academic and practical advances in research, the age-old horror evoked by rabies is still very real, with only four documented human recoveries once symptoms are realized.

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Published December, 2011
By Fritz Melchers and Michael Potter
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Published December, 2011
By H. Koprowski, F. Melchers, P. Koldovsky, W. Henle, P. H. Hofschneider, O. Maaløe, R. Rott, H. G. Schweiger, P. K. Vogt, L. Syru?ek and O. Maaloe
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Published December, 2011
By Rolf Knippers and Arnold J. Levine
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It is surprising, and even disappointing, that there have been very few meetings and published volumes resulting from these meetings that focus attention upon all of the groups of DNA tumor viruses.

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Published December, 2011
By Peter K. Vogt and Ronald Swanstrom
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Published December, 2011
By Walter Doerfler, Petra Bohm and Petra Boehm
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For decades this virus system has served--and continues to do so--to pioneer investigations on the molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics of mammalian cell systems.

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Published December, 2011
By Klaus Jann and Barbara Jann
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Bacterial capsules thus enable the pathogenic bacteria to survive in the host by counter action or evasion of the nonspecific host defense in the early pre immune phase of an infection.

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Published December, 2011
By Bruce W. Chesebro
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Transmission between humans was originally reco gnized in the unique epidemiology of kuru in New Guinea tribesmen, and concern about transmission from animals to humans has re-emerged as a result of the current epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in dairy cattle in Great Britain.

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