Major Histocompatibility Complex: Biology, Functions and Roles in Disease

$182.00

Natalya Semiletova (Editor)
UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, California

Series: Immunology and Immune System Disorders
BISAC: MED008000

This book represents original findings and observations that were made recently on the role and function of MHC proteins in different laboratories around the globe. The articles in this book cover topics from the importance of MHC diversity to the health of the wildlife to intimate molecular mechanisms of MHC exchange between cells. This book will be useful to a wide range of scientists and clinicians who are working in the field of immunology, transplantation and cancer research. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Prophylactic and Therapeutic Approach for Adult T-cell Leukemia Based on Targeting Anti-tumor Immunity
(Tomohiro Kozako, Shinya Hirata, Makoto Yoshimitsu, and Naomichi Arima)

2. MHC class I antigens and tumor immune escape
(Ping Yu and Chi Lu)

3. MHC diversity and wildlife health: lessons from Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease
(Yuanyuan Cheng and Katherine Belov)

4. TNF block haplotypes reveal diverse pathways between TNF and disease: Implications for understanding neuropathy in HIV patients (Constance S.N. Chew, Fabio P. Valente, Hillary J. Wallace, Joo H. Tan, Suzanah E. Temple, Patricia Price)

5. MHC, Viral Infection and Immunoinformatics
(Maurício Menegatti Rigo, Dinler Amaral Antunes, Marialva Sinigaglia, José Artur Bogo Chies and Gustavo Fioravanti Vieira)

6. HLA-G: Biology, Functions and Roles in Disease
(Wei-Hua Yan and Aifen Lin)

7. Non Classical Major Histocompatibility Class I in Health and Disease
(Ayman Antoun)

8. HLA class II presentation of HLA class I binding antigenic 9mer peptides
(Mingjun Wang, Susanne Rasmussen and Mogens H. Claesson)

9. MHC exchange between cells and its functional consequences
(Kathryn Brown and Wilson Wong)

10. Immunoregulatory Effect of the Syngeneic Serum Conditioned by Donor-Like sMHC Class I Proteins
(Natalya V. Semiletova)

Index

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