Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The First 100 Years of Phagocytosis
(Carlos Rosales, Departamento de InmunologĂa, Instituto de Investigaciones BiomĂ©dicas, Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico, Mexico City, Mexico)
Chapter 2. Receptor Signaling during Phagocytosis
(Carlos Rosales and Eileen Uribe-Querol, Departamento de InmunologĂa, Instituto de Investigaciones BiomĂ©dicas, Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico, Mexico City, Mexico, and others)
Chapter 3. The Role of Phosphoinositides in the Formation and Maturation of Phagosomes
(Fernando Montaño, Sergio Grinstein, and Dar’ya S. Redka, Division of Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and others)
Chapter 4. Phagosome Formation and Sealing: A Physical Point of View
(Anna Mularski and Florence Niedergang, Inserm, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France, and others)
Chapter 5. Vesicular Trafficking: From the Golgi to the Plasma Membrane
(Grace M. Miralles and Michelle R. Lennartz, PhD, Department of Regenerative and Cancer Cell Biology (MC 165), Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA)
Chapter 6. Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells: Super Phagocytes with a Rhythm
(Abdallah Hamieh, PhD, and Emeline F. Nandrot, PhD, Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Universiteìs UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM U968, CNRS UMR 7210, Paris, France)
Chapter 7. How Do Microbial Pathogens Escape from Phagocytosis?
(Eileen Uribe-Querol and Carlos Rosales, DivisiĂłn de Estudios de Posgrado e InvestigaciĂłn, Facultad de OdontologĂa, Universidad Nacional AutĂłnoma de MĂ©xico, Mexico City, Mexico)
Index
Additional Information
Keywords: Phagocytosis, Fc receptor, Complement receptor, Phagosome, Phagolysosome, Phagosome maturation,
Audience: People interested in biomedicine, including physicians, biologists, biochemists, and researchers in the fields on immunology, physiology, metabolism, and cancer.