Macrophages: Biology and Role in the Pathology of Diseases /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Biswas, Subhra K. (Editor ), Mantovani, Alberto. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I Macrophage: Origin, Activation And Polarization
  • Blood monocytes and their subsets in health and disease
  • Polarized activation of macrophages
  • Alternative activation of macrophages: concepts and prospects
  • Regulatory macrophages and the maintenance of homeostasis
  • Part II Macrophages And Their Diverse Functions
  • Phagocytosis
  • The antimicrobial functions of macrophages
  • Vascular modulatory functions of macrophages
  • Part III Macrophages In Different Tissues
  • Airway macrophages: sentinels of health
  • Microglial ontogeny and functions in shaping brain circuits
  • Kupffer cells in health and disease
  • Intestinal Macrophages: Specialized antigen-presenting cells at the front line
  • Part IV Macrophages In Pathology
  • The wound macrophage - Macrophages and the entrance of resolution phase lipid mediators
  • Macrophages in sepsis progression
  • Adaptive characteristics of innate immune responses in macrophages
  • African trypanosomiasis as paradigm for involvement of the mononuclear phagocyte system in pathogenicity during parasite infection
  • Macrophages in obesity and insulin resistance
  • Macrophages govern the progression and termination of inflammation in atherosclerosis and metabolic diseases
  • Myelomonocytic subsets in tumor microenvironment
  • Tumor associated macrophages
  • Part V Transcriptional And Epigenetic Mechanisms
  • Role of NF-kB activation in macrophages
  • Interferon Regulatory Factors: Role in transcriptional regulation of macrophage plasticity and activation
  • Kruppel-like factors in Monocyte-Macrophage Biology
  • Regulation of macrophage polarization by the STAT-SOCS signaling axis
  • Functions of the large Maf transcription factors and macrophages
  • The Control of Gene Expression in Macrophages
  • Role of microRNA in macrophage activation and polarization
  • Part VI Systems Biology Of Macrophages
  • The macrophage transcriptome
  • Omics approaches in macrophage biology
  • Appendix.