Key Features


•Supplies new ideas for basic and clinical research
•Provides cytokine descriptions in a guidebook-style, cataloging the origins, structures, functions, receptors, disease-linkage, and therapeutic potentials
•Offers a textbook-style view on the immune system with the immunologic role of each cytokine


Description



The Cytokines of the Immune System catalogs cytokines and links them to physiology and pathology, providing a welcome and hugely timely tool for scientists in all related fields. In cataloguing cytokines, it lists their potential for therapeutic use, links them to disease treatments needing further research and development, and shows their utility for learning about the immune system. This book offers a new approach in the study of cytokines by combining detailed guidebook-style cytokine description, disease linking, and presentation of immunologic roles.


Readership



graduate students to scientists, researchers, teachers in microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, cell biology, medicine, cytokine biology, and odontology: clinicians in all specialties of medicine and surgery: pharmaceutical companies and their R&D divisions.

Foreword
Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Chapter 3. ACTIVATION OF CELLS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Chapter 4. THE ROLE AND REGULATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES
Chapter 5. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DISFUNCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Chapter 6. CYTOKINES IN IMMUNOLOGIC REACTIONS, DISEASES AND THEIR THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL
Chapter 7. CHEMOKINES
Chapter 8. OTHER CYTOKINES IMPORTANT FOR CELLS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Chapter 9. OTHER CYTOKINES IMPORTANT FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 10. THEORIES ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM