Body messages : the quest for the proteins of cellular communication /
This is a book about the research process that led scientists to the discovery of a group of molecules that act as carriers of information among the cells of our body, which the book refers to collectively as "body messages." Among the thousands of body messages, the author selected those...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- The medium is the message, the message is the change
- Doing research: ways to study body messages
- Evolution of message discovery: the interleukin-1 family
- Achieving balance: pro and anti inflammatory mediators
- Traps and diversions: cytokine decoys
- Between inflammation and metabolism: the acute-phase response
- The fat revolution: adipokines.