Fundamentals of Inflammation
ISBN: 9780521887298 | 0521887291
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/26/2010
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The acute inflammatory response is the body's first system of alarm signals that are directed toward containment and elimination of microbial invaders. Uncontrolled inflammation has emerged as a pathophysiologic basis for many widely occurring diseases in the general population. This book provides an introduction to the cell types, chemical mediators, and general mechanisms of the host's first response to invasion.
This book provides an introduction to the cell types, chemical mediators, and general mechanisms of t... MORE
This book provides an introduction to the cell types, chemical mediators, and general mechanisms of t... MORE
| Acute inflammation and chronic inflammation | |
| Resolution of acute inflammation and wound healing | |
| Links between innate and adaptive immunity | |
| Individual Cell Types | |
| Neutrophils I | |
| Neutrophils II | |
| Mast cells as sentinels of inflammation | |
| Basophils | |
| Eosinophils Sophie Fillon | |
| Macrophag... MORE | |
| Lymphocytes | |
| Fibroblasts and stromal cells | |
| Cell-cell interactions: PMN endothelial cells | |
| Chemical Mediators | |
| Lipid mediators in acute inflammation and resolution: eicosanoids, PAF, resolvins and protectins | |
| Cytokines and chemokines / IL-1 family in inflammation | |
| Adenosine receptors: therapeutic aspects for inflammatory and immune diseases | |
| Leukocyte generation of reactive oxygen species | |
| Cell adhesion molecules | |
| Immunopharmacology | |
| Mediators and mechanisms of inflammatory pain | |
| Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs | |
| Cytokines and chemokines in inflammation cancer | |
| Inflammatory Diseases/Histology | |
| Lung | |
| Neural inflammation, Alzheimer's disease and stroke | |
| Rheumatoid arthritis/SLE | |
| Gastrointestinal inflammation and ulceration: mediators of induction and resolution | |
| Inflammatory skin diseases | |
| Kidney glomerulonephritis and renal ischemia | |
| Inflammation in cardiovascular diseases | |
| Animal Models of Inflammation | |
| Models of acute inflammation - air-pouch, peritonitis and ischemia-reperfusion | |
| Experimental models of glomerulonephritis | |
| Ischemia reperfusion injury and glomerulonephritis | |
| Asthma | |
| Arthritis | |
| Ocular inflammation models | |
| Atherosclerosis in experimental animal models | |
| Oral inflammation and periodontitis | |
| Pathogens and inflammation | |
| Diabetes | |
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