Recent advances in human retroviruses
Subtitle: principles of replication and pathogenesis : advances in retroviral research
By: edited by Andrew M.L. Lever, Kuan-Teh Jeang, Ben Berkhout
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9789814295314; 9789814295307
Subjects: Science; MEDICAL; Retroviridae; Retroviruses; Medicine; Preventive Medicine; Viruses; Retrovirus infections; Natural history; Forensic Medicine; Public Health
Description: There are three major types of human retroviruses, namely HIV, HTLV, and endogenous human retroviruses. This book presents the latest findings on the replication of these human retroviruses. This book is unique in that there has been no comparable book that integrates the findings from the three known classes of human retroviruses. Other books have focused on one of the three classes of human retroviruses individually. An accomplished international team of contributing authors have combined their expertise to provide cutting-edge findings in this important field. The book will be a valuable reference for students, researchers and medical professionals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The role of hematopoietic progenitor cells in retroviral pathogenesis / Prabal Banerjee, Elizabeth Samuelson, and Gerold Feuer; title: Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, cellular transformation, and adult T-cell leukemia / Junichiro Yasunaga and Kuan-Teh Jeang; title: Application of proteomics to HTLV-1: understanding pathogenesis and enhancing diagnostics / O. John Semmes ... [et al.]; title: Antisense transcription in human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 : discovery of a new viral gene / Benoit Barbeau, Christian Devaux, and Jean-Michel Mesnard; title: Regulation of HTLV-1 transcription by viral and cellular proteins / Nicholas Polakowski and Isabelle Lemasson; title: Cellular factors involved in HIV-1 RNA transport / Claire A. Williams, Andrew M.L. Lever, and Truus E.M. Abbink; title: Integration site selection by retroviruses and retroviral vectors / Claudia Cattoglio and Fulvio Mavilio.; title: Syncytins in normal and pathological placentas / Andre  Malassine  ... [et al.]; title: Vpu, tetherin, and innate immunity : antiviral restriction of retroviral particle release / Stuart J.D. Neil; title: Retrovirus replication : new perspectives on enzyme and substrate dynamics / Jason W. Rausch ... [et al.]; title: Non-human primates in HIV-1 research / Willy M.J.M. Bogers; title: Lentiviral integration and the role of the cellular cofactors LEDGF/p75 and transportin-SR2 / Bart van Heertum, Jan De Rijck, and Zeger Debyser; title: Retrovirus restriction factors / Reuben S. Harris, Rebecca S. LaRue, and Thomas J. Hope; title: Rev revisited : additional functions of the HIV-1 rev protein / Bastian Grewe and Klaus U berla; title: HIV-1 interactions with small RNA induced silencing mechanisms / Joost Haasnoot and Ben Berkhout.