Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity III

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pulendran, Bali (Editor), Katsikis, Peter D. (Editor), Schoenberger, Stephen P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 780
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Infectious diseases.; Biochemistry.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Infectious Diseases.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general.

This volume presents a collection of reviews derived from work presented at the Aegean Conference: “3rd Crossroads between innate and adaptive immunity” which occurred during September 27 - October 2, 2009 at the Minoa Palace Conference Center in Chania, Crete, Greece. This meeting was the third in...

Table of Contents:

• Is Transcription the Dominant Force during Dynamic Changes in Gene Expression?
• MicroRNAs: Key Components of Immune Regulation
• KIR/HLA: Genetic Clues for a Role of NK cells in the Control of HIV
• Natural Killer cell Licensing during Viral Infection
• Bridging Innate NK cell Functions with Adaptive Immunity
• Control of Innate Immunity by Memory CD4 T cells
• Strategies and Implications for Prime-Boost Vaccinations to Generate Memory CD8 T Cells
• Blimp1: Driving Terminal Differentiation to a T
• A new Role for Myeloid HO-1 in the Innate to Adaptive Crosstalk and Immune Homeostasis
• Impact of Differential Glycosylation on IgG Activity
• Murine Model of Chronic Respiratory Inflammation
• Incorporation of Innate Immune Effector Mechanisms in the Formulation of a Vaccine Against HIV-1
• Influenza Vaccines: What do we Want and How can we Get it?.