Molecular Biology of the Arterial Wall - Schettler, Gotthard; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1987)
Workshop I Lipoproteins and Lipoprotein Receptors -- LDL Receptor Mutations in Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia -- Lipoprotein Receptors and Their Ligands: Structure and Function of Apoproteins E and B -- The Role of HDL in Cholesterol Homeostasis of Macrophages and Reversed Cholesterol Transport -- Lipoproteins, Macrophages and Atherosclerosis -- Arterial Lipoprotein Metabolism: Site-Specific Differences Related to Susceptibility to Atherosclerotic Lesions -- Lipoprotein Disposition by the Liver: A Concerted Action of Various Cell Types -- The Macrophage and Endothelial Cell Scavenger Receptor -- Characterization of the Hepatic Scavenger Receptor -- Workshop II Growth Factors -- The Role of PDGF in Health and Disease -- Role of PDGF-like Growth Factors in Autocrine Stimulation of Cell Growth -- The PDGF Receptor as a Mediator of Mitogenesis -- Alpha-and Beta-Heparin Binding Growth Factors: Chemistry and Biology of Acidic and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factors -- Structure, Homologies and Activities of Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor -- Endothelial Cell Growth Factor and its Receptor -- Workshop Ill Endocytosis and Exocytosis -- Intracellular Transport of Human Class I Antigens and an Adenoviral Glycoproteìn -- Molecular Mechanisms of Endocytic Sorting -- Characterisation of a Fusion Event from the Endocytic Pathway -- Membrane Boundaries Involved in the Selective Trafficking of Cell Surface Receptors -- The Molecular Basis of Human Cellular Iron Metabolism -- Workshop IV ONC Genes and Proliferative Disease -- Molecular Features Involved in Cell Surface Receptor Function and Their Role in Oncogenesis -- Transforming Activity of the fms Oncogene (CSF-1 Receptor) -- Functional and Structural Analysis of the v-src and c-src Genes -- Ras Oncogenes and Cell Transformation -- Cis Regulatory Control of mos Oncogene Expression -- Analysis of the Function of the fos Oncogene Product -- Cooperative Interactions Involving Cellular and Viral Oncogenes in the Development of Malignant Tumors -- Workshop V White Blood Cells -- The Motor of Leukocytes and Platelets: 1986 -- Heterogeneity of Murine and Human Fc? Receptors -- Complement Receptors -- Cachectìn: A Macrophage Protein that Induces a Catabolic State in Infected Animals -- The Role of Cytosolic Free Calcium, (Ca2+)i, and Phosphoinositides as Intracellular Signals -- The Macrophage-Blood Interface: Cell Localisation and Recruitment in Bone Marrow, Liver and Brain -- Normal and Neoplastic Early Lymphocyte Maturation -- Molecular Regulation of Complement Gene Expression -- Workshop VI Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes -- The Role of GTP-Binding Proteins in Coupling Prostaglandin and Leukotriene Receptors to Intracellular Second Messenger Systems -- Regulation of Vascular Tone by Prostaglandins and Endothelium-Derived Relaxing Factor -- Endogenous Cysteinyl Leukotrienes as Mediators in Endotoxin Shock and Tissue Trauma -- Source and Mechanism of Release of Arachidonic Acid in Blood Platelets -- Eicosanoids and the Pulmonary Circulation -- Regulation of the Production (Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase) and the Action (Leukotriene B4 Receptor Sites) of Leukotriene B4 -- Enzymic Synthesis and Degradation of Prostaglandin D2 -- Receptor-Dependent Regulation of Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Responses to Leukotrienes -- Leukotriene C4-Binding Proteins -- Leukotriene C Metabolizing Enzymes -- Workshop VII Biology of Smooth Muscle and Endothelium -- The Fibrinolytic System of Cultured Bovine Aortic Endothelial Cells -- Tumor Necrosis Factor/Cachectin and the Modulation of Endothelial Cell Coagulant Properties -- Membrane Glycoproteins of Endothelial Cells and Platelets -- The Molecular Biology of Endothelial Cell von Willebrand Factor -- Induction and Regulation of Endothelial Gene Expression -- Endothelium-Vascular Smooth Muscle Interactions in Culture -- Endothelial Morphogenesis -- Closing Remarks -- Final Word -- List of Participants -- List of Sponsors.
Keywords: Biochemistry; Cell biology; Biochemistry, general; Cell Biology