Insect immunology / [edited by] Nancy E. Beckage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beckage, N. E. (Nancy E.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insects--Immunology.

Insects.

Arthropoda--Immunology.

Arthropoda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is the first book-length publication on the topic of insect immunology since 1991, complementing earlier works by offering a fresh perspective on current research. Interactions of host immune systems with both parasites and pathogens are presented in detail, as well as the genomics and proteomics, approaches which have been lacking in other publications. Beckage provides comprehensive coverage of topics important to medical researchers, including Drosophila as a model for studying cellular and humoral immune mechanisms, biochemical mediators of immunity, and insect blood cells and th

Contents:

FRONT COVER; INSECT IMMUNOLOGY; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1 INSECT AND VERTEBRATE IMMUNITY: KEY SIMILARITIES VERSUS DIFFERENCES; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 SIMILARITIES; 1.3 DIFFERENCES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2 INSECT HEMOCYTES AND THEIR ROLE IN IMMUNITY; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 HEMOCYTE TYPES; 2.3 HEMATOPOIESIS; 2.4 HEMOCYTE-MEDIATED DEFENSE RESPONSES; 2.5 RECEPTORS AND SIGNALING PATHWAYS MEDIATING HEMOCYTE FUNCTION; 2.6 HEMOCYTE-ASSOCIATED EFFECTOR RESPONSES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3 EICOSANOID ACTIONS IN INSECT IMMUNOLOGY; 3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 EICOSANOIDS ACT IN BACTERIAL CLEARANCE AND NODULE FORMATION REACTIONS3.3 THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF EICOSANOIDS IN INSECT IMMUNE TISSUES; 3.4 EICOSANOIDS ACT IN IN VITRO HEMOCYTE PREPARATIONS; 3.5 EICOSANOIDS IN HEMOCYTE SPREADING AND MIGRATION; 3.6 A FRONTIER: EICOSANOIDS IN INSECT-VIRAL INTERACTIONS; 3.7 ANOTHER FRONTIER: PROSTAGLANDIN MODES OF ACTION; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4 PHENOLOXIDASES IN INSECT IMMUNITY; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 PROPO SEQUENCES, TISSUE SOURCE, AND LOCATION; 4.3 PROPO ZYMOGEN ACTIVATION; 4.4 ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY OF INSECT HEMOLYMPH PHENOLOXIDASES

4.5 REGULATION OF PO ACTIVITY4.6 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5 EVIDENCE FOR SPECIFICITY AND MEMORY IN THE INSECT INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 BACKGROUND ON INSECT IMMUNITY; 5.3 ADAPTIVE ASPECTS OF INSECT INNATE IMMUNITY; 5.4 POTENTIAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SPECIFICITY; 5.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6 BIDIRECTIONAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN INSECTS; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 EVIDENCE THAT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN INFLUENCE NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION

6.3 EVIDENCE FOR NEURAL INFLUENCES ON IMMUNE FUNCTION6.4 WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE CHEMICAL SIGNALS BETWEEN THE IMMUNE AND NERVOUS SYSTEMS?; 6.5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7 BLOODFEEDING AS AN INTERFACE OF MAMMALIAN AND ARTHROPOD IMMUNITY; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 CYTOKINES AND GROWTH FACTORS; 7.3 ANTIBODIES AND COMPLEMENT; 7.4 LEUKOCYTES, REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES AND NITRIC OXIDE; 7.5 ENZYMES; 7.6 HEMOGLOBIN FRAGMENTS; 7.7 PLASMODIUM-ASSOCIATED MOLECULES; 7.8 SUMMARY: THE NEED FOR A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8 MOSQUITO IMMUNITY TO THE MALARIA PARASITE

8.1 INTRODUCTION8.2 THE MOSQUITO IMMUNE RESPONSE: AN INTEGRATED OVERVIEW; 8.3 PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS; 8.4 SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION CASCADES; 8.5 IMMUNE SIGNALING PATHWAYS; 8.6 EFFECTOR GENES; 8.7 NITRIC OXIDE; 8.8 MELANOTIC ENCAPSULATION; 8.9 SPOROZOITE-DIRECTED DEFENSES; 8.10 TRANSCRIPTIONAL IMMUNE RESPONSES TO PLASMODIUM; 8.11 BASAL IMMUNITY AND ANTI-PLASMODIUM DEFENSE; 8.12 GENETIC VARIATION IN MOSQUITO SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MALARIA; 8.13 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9 INSECT IMMUNITY TO VIRUSES; 9.1 INTRODUCTION; 9.2 GENETIC RESISTANCE TO VIRUSES

9.3 PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BARRIERS TO VIRUS INFECTION

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-11190-2

9786611111908

0-08-055633-7

OCLC:

437197001