Published August, 2016
By Lorenzo Emmi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Behcet's syndrome can reasonably be considered a unique entity among diseases of the immune system for several reasons: It has specific features and, uniquely among the immune system pathologies, represents a link between autoimmune diseases, systemic vasculitis, and autoinflammatory diseases.

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Published August, 2016
By Gaetano Vitale and Francesca Mion
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Regulatory B Cells: Methods and Protocols present the current experimental set-ups and methodologies useful for the identification and characterization of B cells with suppressive functions and for the study of their biological and immunological properties.

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Published August, 2016
By Ivana Vancurova
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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This group includes quantification of multiple cytokines using cytometric bead arrays, ELISPOT assays, proteomics cytokine evaluation, multiplexed proximity ligation assays for high-throughput cytokine analysis and finally, cytokine gene expression analysis by gene arrays.

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Published August, 2016
By Paul Eggleton and Frank J. Ward
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Published August, 2016
By Ralph Pantophlet
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book provides an overview of the roles of glycans in the transmission/infection, antigenicity, and immunogenicity of HIV and the HIV envelope glycoprotein. It explores recent advances and their promise for immunological and therapeutic intervention.

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Published August, 2016
By Gerard J. Criner, THOMAS ROGERS, Thomas J. Rogers and William D. Cornwell
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Smoking and Lung Inflammation is the first book directly related to chronic lung inflammation of its kind in several respects. This work will illuminate the molecular basis for these diseases, and hopefully will permit us to individualize the therapies for these diseases.

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Published August, 2016
By Jean Pieters and John D. McKinney
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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With contributions from an interdisciplinary team of recognized experts, this illustrated volume reviews the diverse mechanisms-genetic, metabolic, and molecular-that give M. tuberculosis its antibiotic-resistant virulence and allow it to evade immune systems.

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Published August, 2016
By Hubert Hilbi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal type of pneumonia primarily affecting elderly and immuno-compromised persons, is caused by the ubiquitous environmental bacterium Legionella pneumophila.

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Published August, 2016
By Larry J. Anderson and Barney S. Graham
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been a high priority for vaccine development for over 50 years now, still no vaccine is available and none has yet demonstrated sufficient promise to move to licensure.

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Published August, 2016
By Marie-Ève Tremblay and Amanda Sierra
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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