Mechanisms Of Lymphocyte Activation And Immune Regulation X

by Gupta, Sudhir; Paul, William E.; Steinman, Ralph M.; International Conference on Mechanisms o

• ISBN13: 9780387241883
• ISBN10: 0387241884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation X : Innate Immunity is the proceedings of the Xth International Conference on Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation: Innate Immunity, held February 6-8, 2004 in Newport Beach, California. It is the tenth volume of its kind to appear in the series Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Topics include toll receptors, dendritic cells, NK cells, and complement receptors.

Table of Contents

1. TIR DOMAIN-CONTAINING ADAPTORS REGULATE TLR SIGNALING PATHWAYS
Masahiro Yamamoto and Shizuo Akira	1	(10)
2. TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS: LINKING INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY
Chandrashekhar Pasare and Ruslan Medzhitov	11	(8)
3. ACTIVATION OF INSECT AND VERTEBRATE TOLL SIGNALING: FROM ENDOGENOUS CYTOKINE LIGAND TO DIRECT RECOGNITION OF PATHOGEN PATTERNS
Nicholas J. Gay, Alexander N.R. Weber and Monique Gangloff	19	(10)
4. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF INNATE IMMUNITY: IDENTIFICATION AND FUNCTION OF THE TIR ADAPTER PROTEINS
Bruce Beutler, Kasper Hoebe, Philippe Georgel, Koichi Tabeta, and Xin Du	29	(12)
5. NF-kappaB, AN EVOLUTIONARILY CONSERVED MEDIATOR OF IMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES
Changchun Xiao and Sankar Ghosh	41	(6)
6. INFLUENCE OF KIR DIVERSITY ON HUMAN IMMUNITY
Peter Parham	47	(4)
7. NKG2D IN INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY
Lewis L. Lanier	51	(6)
8. SPECIFIC AND NON-SPECIFIC NATURAL KILLER CELL RESPONSES TO VIRAL INFECTION
Wayne M. Yokoyama	57	(6)
9. ANTIGEN PROCESSING AND PRESENTATION BY DENDRITIC CELLS: CELL BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS
Ira Mellman	63	(6)
10. HUMAN THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN TRIGGERS DENDRITIC CELL-MEDIATED ALLERGIC INFLAMMATION AND CD4+ T CELL HOMEOSTATIC EXPANSION
Norihiko Watanabe, Vassili Soumelis, and Yong-Jun Liu	69	(8)
11. ROLE OF TRAF6 IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Yongwon Choi	77	(6)
12. THE INNATE FUNCTIONS OF DENDRITIC CELLS IN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOID TISSUES
Ralph M. Steinman, Laura Bonifaz, Shin-ichiro Fujii, Kang Liu, David Bonnyay, Sayuri Yamazaki, Maggi Pack, Daniel Hawiger, Tomonori Iyoda, Kayo Inaba, and Michel C. Nussenzweig	83	(16)
13. THE MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN: AN INFECTION SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE
R. Alan Ezekowitz, Lei Shi, Iain Fraser, and Kazue Takahashi	99	(6)
14. IMMUNOTHERAPY VIA DENDRITIC CELLS
A. Karolina Palucka, Beatrice Laupeze, Caroline Aspord, Hiroaki Saito, Gaetan Jego, Joseph Fay, Sophie Paczesny, Virginia Pascual and Jacques Banchereau	105	(10)
15. ONTOGENY OF LANGERHANS CELLS AND GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
Miriam Merad	115	(10)
16. ROLE OF THE CD19 AND CD21/35 RECEPTOR COMPLEX IN INNATE IMMUNITY, HOST DEFENSE AND AUTOIMMUNITY
Karen M. Haas and Thomas F. Tedder	125	(16)
17. ROLE OF COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR 2 IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Susan A. Boackle	141	(8)
18. COMPLEMENT REGULATION DURING PREGNANCY
Hector Molina	149	(8)
INDEX	157