Immunology

As bone marrow transplant treatments and chemotherapy develop, the population of neutropenic cancer patients is on the rise.

This book focuses on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) of animal origin, including their isolation, characterization, and clinical applications.

The fifth edition delivers up-to-date coverage of every conceivable aspect in modern-day management of contact dermatitis.

Monoclonal antibodies have had their impact on biomedical research for more than a decade.

This volume of the series Rare Diseases of the Immune System presents detailed state of the art knowledge on the cellular primary immunodeficiencies; it includes extensive coverage of both basic science discoveries and the latest clinical advances in the field.

For the first time, the world's experts in HIV-AIDS have come together to publish the Encyclopedia of AIDS.

Vaccines have historically been considered to be the most cost-effective method for preventing communicable diseases.

This fully-updated third edition provides systems-based methodologies and innovative technologies that can be used for solving complicated problems of complex systems.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Forty years of Interferon I wish to dedicate this short introduction to the memory of Alick Isaacs (1921-1967), and to that of Sir Christopher Andrewes (1896-1988).

Carrying on the high standards of the much praised first edition (Durum and Muegge, Cytokine Knockouts, 1998), Giamila Fantuzzi and a panel of experts have generated completely new chapters to reflect the use of many novel mouse strains and the hundreds of recent studies on cytokine physiology.

Provides a thorough overview of current knowledge of stress proteins in both normal and disease physiology and evaluates the potential for developing novel diagnostic, prophylactic, and therapeutic approaches to control human disease based on the latest stress-protein research.

This volume provides detailed protocols for the isolation, enumeration, characterization of diverse bacteriophages, including both small and jumbo bacteriophages, from soil, fecal, municipal wastewater, and from food niche samples.

This book contains the refereed contributions from the 43rd annual meeting of ISOTT.

Molecular Characterization of Autophagic Responses, Part B presents a collection of methods for the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of virtually all the morphological, biochemical, and functional manifestations of autophagy, in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo, in organisms as distant as yeast and man.

The Cytokines of the Immune System catalogs cytokines and links them to physiology and pathology, providing a welcome and hugely timely tool for scientists in all related fields.

Gene therapy was conceived during the early and mid part of the 20th century.

This book seeks to represent the main concepts and theories related to psychoneuroimmunology with the aim of their application in clinical settings and formation of novel theories to further elucidate the mutual connection of the psyche and the physiology of humans' body.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This book brings together an up-to-date account of instructions in the chemical and biological methods of analysis for antibiotics.

Thisvolume details our current understanding of the architecture and signalingcapabilities of the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) in health and disease.

Helminth infections are common, cause considerable pathology, and alter a host's immune profile.

This book offers a handy reference guide to anaphylaxis, including diagnosis and treatment.

Inhaled therapies form the cornerstone for treatment of patients with asthma and COPD.

Analytical Microbiology focuses on the processes, methodologies, developments, and approaches involved in analytical microbiology, including microbiological, antibiotic, and amino acid assays and dilution methods.

Highly Commended, BMA Medical Book Awards 2013Sarcoidosis represents a major challenge for physicians-not just in respiratory medicine, but across a range of specialties.

Phagocytosis has been at the forefront of cell biology for more than a century.

T cells belong to a group of white blood cells called lymphocytes and play a large role in the immune response.

The last decade has seen an explosion in our understanding of how bacterial pathogens trick, cajole, usurp and parasitize their various hosts.

This fourth edition volume expands on the previous editions with discussions on the latest protocols that can be applied in different laboratory landscapes ranging from purely research to clinical diagnostic environments.

The core of this three-volume book deals with damage-associated molecular patterns abbreviated "e;DAMPs"e;, which are unique molecules that save life and fight for survival of all organisms on this planet by triggering robust inflammatory/immune defense responses upon any injury, including those caused by pathogens such as viruses and bacteria.

Japanese Kampo Medicines for the Treatment of Common Diseases - Focus on Inflammation provides researchers and clinicians with a current look at how Kampo medicines can be used to effectively treat inflammatory disorders.

Biological response modifiers are increasingly used in viral and cancer therapy.

This textbook describes in detail the process of cancer metastasis from a single cell in the primary site through its arduous journey to the sentinel lymph node as the main gateway and beyond to distant sites.

Certain organ toxicities can be severe and life-threatening.

Cancer is a major public health concern and one of the leading causes of death.

Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are highly versatile membrane-associated transporter machines used by Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria to deliver substrate molecules to a large variety of target cells.

Experts from The Jackson Laboratory and around the world provide practical advice on everything from how to establish a colony to where to go for specific mutations.

This book provides the description of the granulomatous diseases of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck with their characteristic features, investigations and management.

Principles of X-Ray Diagnosis covers the system of observation and deductions of a radiologist taken from radiographs.

With this book we* want to address young graduate students, clini- cians involved in transplantation, and technicians in transplantation immunology laboratories.

"e;About 25 years ago, Mosmann & Coffman introduced the TH1 / TH2 paradigm of T helper cell differentiation which helped explain many aspects of adaptive immunity from eliminating intracellular versus extracellular pathogens to induction of different types of tissue inflammation.

This book explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and cancer, illuminating various facets from fundamental roles to personalized therapies.

The fourth edition of The Cytokine Handbook provides an encyclopedic coverage of the molecules that induce and regulate immune responses.

There are many principles and applications of recombinant antibodies for infectious diseases.

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents.