Inflammation Protocols - Winyard, Paul G.; Willoughby, Derek A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2003)
In Vitro Systems for Studying Aspects of the Inflammatory Response and Testing Antiinflammatory Drugs -- Key Stages in the Acute Inflammatory Response and Their Relevance as Therapeutic Targets -- I?B Kinase and NF-?B Signaling in Response to Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines -- Screening for Inhibitors of Transcription Factors Using Luciferase Reporter Gene Expression in Transfected Cells -- Adhesion Molecule Expression on Cytokine-Stimulated Human Endothelial Cells -- Phagocytosis by Inflammatory Phagocytes -- Cytosolic Ca2+ Measurement and Imaging in Inflammatory Cells -- Detection and Visualization of Oxidase Activity in Phagocytes -- Measurement of Complement Activation -- Measurement of Matrix Metalloproteinase Activities in the Medium of Cultured Synoviocytes Using Zymography -- Measurement of Aggrecanase-Generated Interglobular Domain Catabolites in the Medium and Extracts of Cartilage Explants Using Western Blot Analysis -- In Vitro Model of Human Articular Cartilage Degradation -- In Vivo Models of Inflammation -- In Vivo Models of Inflammation -- Carrageenan-Induced Paw Edema in the Rat and Mouse -- Pleural Models of Inflammation -- Models of Acute Inflammation in the Ear -- Migration of Specific Leukocyte Subsets in Response to Cytokine or Chemokine Application In Vivo -- Inflammatory Joint Disease -- The Assessment of Inflammation, Cartilage Matrix, and Bone Loss in Experimental Monoarticular Arthritis of the Rat -- Collagen-Induced Arthritis -- Air-Pouch Models of Inflammation and Modifications for the Study of Granuloma-Mediated Cartilage Degradation -- Quantitative Analysis of Angiogenesis Using the Murine Chronic Granulomatous Air Pouch -- Models of Coronary Artery Occlusion and Reperfusion for the Discovery of Novel Antiischemic and Antiinflammatory Drugs for the Heart -- Assessment of Anticolitic Drugs in the Trinitrobenzene Sulfonic Acid (TNBS) Rat Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- An In Vivo Model of Ischemia/Reperfusion and Inflammation of the Kidneys of the Rat -- In Vivo Models of Inflammation -- Wound Healing -- Pharmacodynamic Endpoints in Experimental Models and In Clinical Studies in Humans -- An Iconoclastic Approach to Pharmacodynamics in Model Systems: Their Relevance to Humans -- A Reply to "An Iconoclastic Approach to Pharmacodynamics in Model Systems: Their Relevance to Humans" -- Quantifying Inflammation In Vivo Using Radiolabeled Antibodies and Leukocytes -- Immunoperoxidase Histochemistry for the Detection of Cellular Adhesion Molecule, Cytokine, and Chemokine Expression in the Arthritic Synovium -- Roles of Nitric Oxide and Superoxide in Inflammation -- Analysis of Nitrite and Nitrate in the Study of Inflammation -- In Vivo Assays for COX-2 -- Measurement of 8-epi-PGF2? as a Marker of Lipid Peroxidation In Vivo by Immunoaffinity Extraction and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry -- Laboratory Assessment of the Acute Phase Response -- Assays of Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) and MMP Inhibitors.
Keywords: Immunology; Immunology