Binomium chitin-chitinase : recent issues / Salvatore Musumeci and Maurizio G. Paoletti, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Musumeci, Salvatore.

Paoletti, M. G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chitin.

Chitinase.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a collection of articles on binomial chitin/chitinase from authors who have all personally contributed to the development and increased acknowledgement of this topic. The book will represents a milestone for future researchers by taking into account the known archaic function of chitinases and the new description of chitin and chitinases roles in innate immunity. This recently discovered role has likely been vital in the process of genetic selection.

Contents:

New aspects of chitin chemistry and enzymology / Riccardo Muzzarelli

Role of chitinase in nature / Neetu Dahiya

Chitin and chitinase in the human evolution / Andrea Giansanti, Fabio Mecozzi, and Salvatore Musumeci

Chitinase in fungal and bacterial sepsis / Helen Michelakakis and Ioannis Labadaridis

The origin and genetics of human chitinases / Rolf Boot ... [et al.]

Polymorphism of chitinases in human populations / Andrea Angius

The gaucher cell and chitotriosidase, the phagocyte chitinase / J.M. Aerts & R.G. Boot

Chitinase activity in atherosclerosis disease / Ana Cenarro and Fernando Civeira

Chitotriosidase activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis and juvenile sarcoidosis / Juergen Brunner

Chitinase in neurological diseases / Stefano Sotgiu

Chitin in Alzheimer disease / Luis F. Gonzalez Cuyar, Rudy J. Castellani

Chitin and chitinase in anticancer research / Xing Q. Pan

YKL-40 in inflammation, tissue remodelling, and cancer / Julia Johansen

Chitotriosidase in patients with beta-thalassemia / Rita Barone

Chitotriosidase in the plasmodium, anopheles, and human interaction / Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci

Role of amcase in the allergic ocular pathologies / Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci

Chitinase in the immune response / Maria Musumeci and Salvatore Musumeci

The role of chitin and chitinases in asthma / Max A. Seibold and Esteban Gonzalez Burchard

Chitinase like lectins in humans / Julia Kzhyshkowska

Role of amcase in the gastric digestion of chitin / Maurizio G. Paoletti ... [et al.]

Role of chitinase in gastroenterology / Emiko Mizoguchi and Mayumi Kawada

Chitinase inhibitors and its significance in biology / Shohei Sakuda

Recognition of chitin and chitin-derived chitooligosaccharides in nature / Franco Falcone.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61728-147-6

OCLC:

659565237