Published August, 2010
By Oystein Bruserud
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The chemokine system is also important both for the crosstalk between malignant cells and their neighbouring nonmalignant stromal cells (including endothelial cells) as well as for immunoregulation in patients treated with allogeneic stem cell transplantation.

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Published August, 2010
By Allison Abendroth, Ann M. Arvin and Jennifer F. Moffat
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This book offers a comprehensive review of basic and clinical research on Varicella-zoster Virus, the only human herpesvirus for which vaccines to prevent both primary and recurrent infection are approved.

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Published February, 2010
By Peter E. Lipsky and Andreas Radbruch
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In addition, there are in?uences that are extrinsic to potentially auto-reactive lymphocytes, including the function of regulatory cells, d- ferentiation state of antigen-presenting cells, availability of self-antigen, the cytokine and chemokine milieu, as well as the traf?cking patterns involved in generating productive immune interactions.

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Published February, 2010
By Walter Doerfler, Petra Bohm and Petra Boehm
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Published February, 2010
By Stanley A. Plotkin and Stanley Plotkin
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Mass immunization is the blitzkrieg of vaccination practice. However, as in war, mass immunization campaigns must be conducted intelligently, with careful strategy and strong attention to logistics of supply and deployment.

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Published February, 2010
By John L. Casey
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Hepatitis delta virus (HDV), which causes severe acute and chronic liver disease, was discovered nearly 30 years ago following the detection of a novel antigen-antibody system in hepatitis B virus carriers.

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Published February, 2010
By William M. Shafer, William Shafer and William Schaffer
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This volume of CTMI, entitled Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Disease, is dedicated to the role of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the innate host defense system of homo sapiens.

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Published February, 2010
By Esteban Domingo
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Continuous genetic variation and selection of virus subpopulations in the course of RNA virus replications are intimately related to viral disease mechanisms. The central topics of this volume are the origins of the quasispecies concept, and the implications of quasispecies dynamics for viral populations.

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Published February, 2010
By Eric Vivier and Marco Colonna
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Natural Killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes of the innate immune system. Importantly, NK cells also link the innate and adaptive immune responses, contributing to the initiation of adaptive immune responses and executing adaptive responses using the CD16 FcgRIIIA immunoglobulin Fc receptor.

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Published December, 2009
By Takashi Saito and Facundo D. Batista
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Cells of the immune system develop in bone marrow and lymphoid organs, but as the cells mature they leave these organs and circulate as single cells. Studies of normal and transformed T cell lines and of T cells from transgenic mice led to comprehensive understanding of the mole- lar basis of antigen-receptor recognition and signaling.

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