Defense of mucosal surfaces
Subtitle: pathogenesis, immunity and vaccines
By: edited by J.-P. Kraehenbuhl and M.R. Neutra.
Contributors: Kraehenbuhl, Jean-Pierre.; Neutra, Marian R.
Series: Current topics in microbiology and immunology -- 236.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Mucous membrane -- Diseases -- Immunological aspects.; Drug Design.; Immunity, Mucosal.; Vaccines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Organization of mucosal lymphoid tissue / W.R. Hein - M cells in antigen sampling in mucosal tissues / M.R. Neutra - Dendritic cells and langerhans cells in the uptake of mucosal antigens  G.G. MacPherson and L.M. Liu - Epithelial cells in antogen sampling and presentation in mucosal tissues / D. Kaiserlian - Oral tolerance and anti-pathological vaccines / C. Czerkinsky and J.-B. Sun and J. Holmgren - Antibody-mediated protection of mucosal surfaces / B. Corthesy and J.-P. Kraehenbuhl - Effector and regulatory lymphoid cells and cytokines in mucosal sites / T.T. MacDonald - Bacterial epithelial cell cross talk / B. Raupach ⁵ [et al.] - Microbial-host interactions at mucosal sites / A. Phalipon and P.J. Sansonetti - Host responses to respiratory virus infection and immunization / J.E. Crowe, Jr. - Bacterial toxins as mucosal adjuvants / L.C. Freytag and J.D. Clements - Bacterial mucolsal vaccines : vibrio cholerae as a live attenuated vaccine/vector paradigm / K. Killeen, D. Spriggs, and J. Mekalanos - Recombinant viruses as vectors for mucosal immunity  / C.D. Morrow ⁵ [et al.] - Plant expression systems for the production of vaccines / J.K.-C. Ma and N.D. Vine.