Published September, 2014
By Andreas Radbruch, Hans-Dieter Volk, Khusru Asadullah, Wolf-Dietrich Docke and Wolf-Dietrich Doecke
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings
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This volume features contributions from participants of the ESRF symposium on Immunotherapy in 2020-Visions and Trends for Targeting Inflammatory Diseases held in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany, in October 2006. The symposium presentations covered the main mechanisms of immunoregulation.

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Published September, 2014
By Moses Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Controversy still exists regarding how early disease-modifying agents (DMA) should be commenced and whether all patients with relapsing-remitting MS should in fact be treated. With their novel, multifaceted approach to basic science, the authors of this book offer help to clinicians and hope to patients.

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Published September, 2014
By Jeremy Nuttall
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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One of the most promising new approaches for the prevention of HIV transmission, particularly for developing countries, involves topical, self-administered products known as microbicides.

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Published September, 2014
By Marie-Ève Tremblay and Amanda Sierra
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Microglia in Health and Disease

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Published September, 2014
By Peter K. Vogt and Patrick J. Paddison
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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In the last few years the major effect that RNAi has had in invertebrate systems is beginning to take hold in mammalian systems through both single gene knockdown experiments and genome-scale screens. Through the introduction of RNAi, mammalian systems have finally gained admittance to the pantheon of model genetic systems.

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Published September, 2014
By Stefan Dubel and Roland E. Kontermann
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Antibodies are indispensable tools for research, diagnosis, and therapy. Recombinant approaches allow the modification and improvement of nearly all antibody properties, such as affinity, valency, specificity, stability, serum half-life, effector functions, and immunogenicity.

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Published September, 2014
By Tatsuji Nomura, Takeshi Watanabe and Sonoko Habu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The term humanized mouse in this text refers to a mouse in which human tissues and cells have been transplanted and show the same biological function as they do in the human body.

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Published September, 2014
By Z F Fu and Z.F. Fu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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This volume reviews the unique and common features of rhabdoviruses, which have a very wide host range and are associated with human diseases and also infect domestic livestock and agricultural plants, causing enormous economic loss.

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Published September, 2014
By Yona Keisari
Publisher: Springer
Series: The Tumor Microenvironment
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The growing knowledge on tumor-immune response interactions and on the tumor microenvironment did not translate so far into better control of cancer by anti-tumor vaccination.

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Published September, 2014
By Erika Jensen-Jarolim and Manuel L. Penichet
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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This is a comprehensive volume about the evolving new field AllergoOncology. The book, the first of its class, attempts to explore step by step the interesting questions emerging from this novel science field.

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