Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation IX : Homeostasis and Lymphocyte Traffic /

This volume is divided into three sections. Section I deals with factors that regulate the development and maturation of T cells and B cells and lymphocyte traffic. The significance of C-kit, Bcl-6, IL-7, and Vav in the development of T and B lymphocytes is discussed. A role of lymphotoxins and VAP-...

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Main Author: Gupta, Sudhir
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Other Authors: Butcher, Eugene, Paul, William E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint : Springer, 2002.
Series:Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 512.
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Summary:This volume is divided into three sections. Section I deals with factors that regulate the development and maturation of T cells and B cells and lymphocyte traffic. The significance of C-kit, Bcl-6, IL-7, and Vav in the development of T and B lymphocytes is discussed. A role of lymphotoxins and VAP-I in trafficking of leucocytes is reviewed. Finally, the trafficking and homing characteristics of T cell and B cell subsets, and the regulation of these processes during the immune response, is presented. Section II discusses various aspects of naive and memory T cell biology, including clonal expansion, reprogramming of genes including those encoding cytokines and cytotoxic granules, changes in the expression of cell surface proteins involved in cell-cell adhesion, homing of naive and memory T cells, the role of MHC and cytokines in the maintenance of naive and memory T cells, and the characterization and differentiation of virus-specific memory T cell heterogeneity in mice and humans. Novel methods of visualization of immune cells and immune systems are reviewed in Section III.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages)
ISBN:9781461507574 (electronic bk.)
146150757X (electronic bk.)