Published December, 2013
By John W. Hadden and William E. Stewart II
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Published March, 2013
By Caroline A. Hébert
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Caroline Hebert and a panel of key experimentalists and clinical investigators comprehensively review the state-of-the-art in the chemokine field, ranging from the effects of chemokines and their receptors in retroviral infections, to their role in inflammation, angiogenesis/angiostasis, and tumor cell biology.

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Published March, 2013
By Gary M. Kammer
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Leading basic and clinical investigators from around the world summarize the most recent research on the molecular and cellular origins of lupus. This pathophysiology is shown to involve a wide variety of cell types, including T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, macrophages/monocytes, and endothelial cells.

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Published October, 2012
By Sudhir Paul
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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The authoritative experts writing here explore the mechanistic aspects of such autoimmune diseases as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and autoimmune thyroid disease, and where possible delineate how malfunctioning immunological mechanisms can lead to clinical symptoms.

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Published August, 2012
By John D. Lambris and V. Michael Holers
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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A team of expert investigators and clinical researchers comprehensively review complement's basic biology, its role in disease, methods to measure its activity, and strategies for its inhibition in patients.

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Published February, 2012
By Michael P. Cancro
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Discovery of the BLyS (also known as BAFF) family of ligands and receptors has yielded a paradigm shift in our view of B-lymphocyte selection, survival, activation, and homeostasis.

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Published October, 2011
By Albert A. Luderer and Howard H. Weetall
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Published September, 2011
By David Naor, Benjamin Y. Klein, Nora Tarcic and Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Professor Naor and his colleagues have written a book that explores another possible reason: cancer cells are recognized by the immune system-but is it possible that the consequence of recognition is inhibition of the immune system-by suppressor T cells or macrophages?

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Published November, 2010
By John G. Monroe and Ellen Rothenberg
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Despite the tremendous diversity of the cells of the hematopoietic system, they are all derived from common precursor cells that are generated in the fetus and persist into adult life. However, new technologies allow increasingly elegant and informative studies in mammalian systems, particularly for cells of the hematopoietic system.

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Published November, 2010
By Giamila Fantuzzi
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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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.

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