The chemokine system in experimental and clinical hematology
By: Øystein Bruserud, editor
Series: Current topics in microbiology and immunology -- 341
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783642126383; 9783642126390
Subjects: Hämatologie; Leukocyte Chemotaxis; Stem Cell Transplantation; Diseases; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Chemokine; Chemokine Receptors; Chemokines; Physiopathology; Blood; Graft vs Host Disease; Therapeutic use; Physiology; Experimental Hematology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction.; title: Chemokine system in experimental and clinical hematology / Oystein Bruserud, Astrid Olsnes Kittang.; title: Part II. Experimental hematology.; title: Chemokine decoy receptors: strucuture-function and biological properties / Raffaella Bonecchi, Benedetta Savino, Elena M. Borroni, Alberto Mantovani, Massimo Locati.; title: Role of chemokines in the biology of natural killer cells / Azzram A. Maghazachi.; title: Chemokines in angiogenesis / Anna Dimbert.; title: Part III. Immunobiology of allogeneic stem cell transplantation.; title: Genetic polymorphisms in the cytokine and chemokine systems: their possible importance in allogeneic stem cell transplantation / Jeurgen Loeffler, Michael Ok, Oliver C. Morton, Markus Mezger, Hermann Einsele.; title: Chemokine system: a possible therapeutic target in acute graft versus host disease / Nicolai A. Kittan, Gerhard C. Hildebrandt.; title: Homing in on acute graft vs. host disease: tissue-specific T regulatory and Th17 cells / Brian G. Engelhardt, James E. Crowe Jr.; title: Part IV: Clinical hematology.; title: Chemokine network in acute myelogenous leukemia: molecular mechanisms involved in leukemogenesis and therapeutic implications / Astrid Olsnes Kittang, Kimberley Hatfield, Kristoffer Sand, Hakon Reikvam, Oystein Bruserud.; title: CXCR4 in clinical hematology / Gary Calandra, Gary Bridger, Simon Fricker.; title: Immunobiology of herparin-induced thrombocytopenia / Per Morten Sandset.