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Main description:
This book deals with the description of the role of chemokines in immune response and underlines potential targets of therapeutical intervention. It offers a series of international contributions of the most challenging aspects of lymphocyte migration in homeostasis and in disease, and has a special focus on diseases and targets of therapeutical intervention. The book will interest researchers and clinicians from inflammation research.
Contents:
Lymphocyte trafficking: from immunology paradigms to disease mechanisms.- Biology of chemokines.- Lymphocyte-endothelial cell interaction.- Chemokine receptor expression in effector and memory T cell subsets.- Migration of dendritic cell subsets.- Migration of NK cells.- Lymphocyte trafficking and chemokine receptors during pulmonary disease.- Lymphocyte migration to the brain.- Lymphocyte migration to the kidney.- Lymphocyte migration to pancreatic islets.- Controlling leukocyte trafficking in disease.- Leukocyte adhesion deficiency .- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome as a model of cytoskeleton defects .- From CXCR4 mutations to WHIM syndrome
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Publication date: July, 2006
Pages: 253
Weight: 642g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Haematology, Immunology
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