Chemokines in allergic disease / edited by Marc E. Rothenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothenberg, Marc E., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemokines--physiology.

Hypersensitivity--immunology.

Medical Subjects:

Chemokines--physiology.

Hypersensitivity--immunology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dekker, [2000]

Contents:

I. Basic Science of Chemokines and Their Receptors

2. The Chemokine Family / Joost J. Oppenheim, O. M. Zack Howard, Joseph A. Hedrick 17

3. Chemokine Receptors / Philip M. Murphy, Marc E. Rothenberg 53

4. Three-Dimensional Structure of Chemokines / Martin J. Stone, Kristen R. Mayer 67

II. Basic Science of Chemokines and Allergic Disease

5. Animal Allergy Models: Dissecting Chemokine Function / D. M. Conroy, Timothy Williams 95

6. Transcriptional Regulation of Chemokines / Ya-Fen Chen, An Song, Alan M. Krensky 115

7. Chemokines and Histamine-Releasing Factors / Allen P. Kaplan 137

8. Eosinophil Chemokines / Marc E. Rothenberg, Nives Zimmermann 151

9. Basophil Chemokines / Clemens A. Dahinden 173

10. Dendritic Cells, T Lymphocytes, and Chemokines / David R. Greaves, Thomas J. Schall 191

11. Differential Production and Function of Chemokines During Th1/Th2 Type Responses / Emma M. Campbell, Steven L. Kunkel, Nicholas W. Lukacs 209

12. Chemokines for Immature Blood Cells: Effects on Migration, Proliferation, and Differentiation / Chang H. Kim, Hal E. Broxmeyer 227

13. The Induction of Chemokines by Viruses in Allergic States / James M. Stark 263

14. Chemokine and Cytokine Cooperativity / Ljubov Simson, Paul Stephen Foster 289

15. Chemokine Receptor Signal Transduction Mechanisms / Ann Richmond, Wei Yang, Madhav N. Devalaraja 311

III. Clinical Science of Chemokines in Allergic Disease

16. Chemokines and Disease / Andrew D. Luster, Sylvie Abi-Younes, Andrew M. Tager 339

17. Chemokines in Allergic Asthma / Sun Ying, A. B. Kay 383

18. Cellular Sources of Chemokines in Allergic Diseases / Omar Ghaffar, Pota Christodoulopoulos, Qutayba Hamid 403

19. Chemokines in Allergic Rhinitis / Rafeul Alam 425

20. Chemokines in Ocular Allergy and Inflammation / Eric Pearlman 435

21. Chemokines in Allergic Cutaneous Disorders / Jens-Michael Schroder 453

IV. Pharmaceutic Strategies for Allergies

22. Regulation of Chemokines by Glucocorticoids / Cristiana Stellato, Robert P. Schleimer 473

23. Chemokine Analogues / Amanda E. I. Proudfoot, Christine A. Power, Timothy Wells 509

24. Chemokine Receptor Blockade / Paul D. Ponath 533.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824702867

OCLC:

42476286