Title: Microbial toxins and diarrhoeal disease.
Authors: Evered, David.; Whelan, Julie; Ciba Foundation.; Symposium on Microbial Toxins and Diarrhoeal Disease
Date: 1985
Publisher: Pitman ;
Physical description: ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: Microbial toxins and diarrhoeal diseases : introduction and overview / R.L. Guerrant -- Regulation of water and ion movement in intestine / Don W. Powell, Helen M. Berschneider, Larry D. Lawson, Holger Martenst -- Role of the mucosal barrier in toxin/microbial attachment to the gastrointestinal tract / W. Allan Walker -- Toxins which activate adenylate cyclase / D. Michael Gill, Marilyn Woolkalis -- Toxins which activate guanylate cyclase : heat-stable enterotoxins / Mrinalini C. Rao -- STB enterotoxin of Escherichia coli : cyclic nucleotide-independent secretion / Cynthia S. Weikel, Richard L. Guerrant -- Mechanisms by which cyclic nucleotides and other intracellular mediators regulate secretion / Hugo R. De Jonge, Suzanne M. Lohmannt -- Secretory hormones of Entamoeba histolytica / Katherine McGowan, Victoria Guerina, Joan Wicks, Mark Donowitz -- The pharmacological modification of secretory responses / Richard J. Miller, David R. Brown, Eugene B. Chang, David D. Friel -- Salmonellosis: in retrospect and prospect / J. Stephen, T.S. Wallis, W.G. Starkey, D.C.A. Candy, M.P. Osborne, S. Haddon -- Shigella toxin and the pathogenesis of shigellosis / Gerald T. Keusch, Arthur Donohue-Rolfe, Mary Jacewicz -- Staphylococcus aureus delta toxin as an entero toxin / Frank A. Kapral -- Clostridial toxins active locally in the gastrointestinal tract / Tracy Wilkins, Howard Krivan, Bradley Stiles, Robert Carman, David Lyerly -- Vaccine development for the control of cholera and related toxin-induced diarrhoeal diseases / Jan Holmgren, Ann-Mari Svennerholm.
Notes: Symposium on Microbial Toxins and Diarrhoeal Disease, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 10-12 July 1984. Editors: David Evered (Organizer) and Julie Whelan.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bacterial toxins--Congresses.; Diarrhea--Etiology--Congresses.; Diarrhea--Microbiology--Congresses.