Leukocyte trafficking : molecular mechanisms, therapeutic targets, and methods /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engelhardt, Hamann
Corporate Author: John Wiley & Sons
Other Authors: Hamann, Alf
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2005]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • List of authors
  • Movies on the included CD
  • Color plates
  • pt. 1. Molecular mechanisms ; 1. The multistep model of leukocyte trafficking : a personal perspective from 15 years later / Eugene C. Butcher ; 2. Capture and rolling : selectins and their ligans / Claudine S. Bonder and Paul Kubes ; 3. Chemokines and their receptors : biochemical, structural and biological properties / Martin Oppermann and Reinhold Förster ; 4. Mechanisms of leukocyte integrin activation / Gabriela Constantin and Carlo Laudanna ; 5. Mechanisms of leukocyte transmigration : role of immunoglobulin superfamily molecules / Federica M. Marelli-Berb and Sussan Nourshargh ; 6. The endothelial cell basement membrane and its role in leukocyte extravasation / Lydia M. Sorokin
  • pt. II. Trafficking in vivo ; 7. Control of homing receptor expression during lymphocyte differentiation, activiation, and function / Daniel J. Campbell ; 8. Trafficking of lymphocyte subpopulations / Alf Hamann, Carrie N. Arnold, and Gudrun F. Debes ; 9. Trafficking of B cells / Rudolf A. Manz ; 10. Trafficking of dendritic cells / Nikolaus Romani ... et al.
  • pt. III. Inflammation ; 11. Molecular and cellular contributions to selectin-dependent leukocyte adhesion under flow / Rodger P. McEver ; 12. Mechanisms of inflammation : neutrophils / Markus Sperandio and Barbara Walzog ; 13. Chemokines drive inflammatory leukocyte recruitment / Stefan Floess and Antal Rot ; 14. Mechanism of inflammation : activation of the endothelium / Matthias Clauss and Carolyn E. Patterson
  • pt. IV. Trafficking mechanisms as therapeutic targets ; 15. Integrins as therapeutic targets for inflammatory disease / Michael J. Briskin ; 16. Chemokine receptor antagonists : from the bench to the clinic / Sofia Ribeiro and Richard Horuk
  • pt. V. Methods to study cell trafficking ; 17. Leukocyte-endothelian cell-cell interactions in vitro : static assays and adhesion under shear stress / Markus Hammel ... et al. ; 18. Chemotaxis assay : analysis of migration of lymphocyte subsets / Kerstin Siegmund, Gudrun F. Debes, and Ald Hamann ; 19. In vitro transendothelial migration assay / Ruth Lyck and Britta Engelhardt ; 20. Real time in vitro assays for studying leukocyte transendothelial migration under physiological flow conditions / Ronen Alon, Guy Cinamon, and Francis W. Luscinskas ; 21. Intravital microscopy and in vitro flow chamber : techniques to study leukocyte adhesion under flow and in real time / Jens V. Stein ; 22. Immune processes in the light of two-photon microscopy / Alexander Flügel and Naoto Kawakami ; 23. Use of labeled lymphocytes to analyze trafficking in vivo / Kerstin Siegmund and Alf Hamann.