Epstein Barr Virus Volume 1 One Herpes Virus: Many Diseases /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Münz, Christian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Σειρά: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 390
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Virology.; Biomedicine.

Epstein Barr virus (EBV) was discovered as the first human tumor virus around 50 years ago. Since its discovery in Burkitt’s lymphoma it has been associated with various other malignancies, infectious mononucleosis and even autoimmune diseases. The two book volumes on EBV summarize the first 50 year...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• History
• Chap. 1 Why and How Epstein-Barr Virus was discovered 50 years ago - Anthony Epstein, University of Oxford, UK
• Chap. 2. Tumor associations of EBV – historical perspectives - George Klein, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Chap. 3. EBV-specific immune response: early research and personal reminiscences – Denis J. Moss and Viviana P. Lutzky, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
• Virus genetics and epigenetics
• Chap. 4. Epstein Barr virus strain variation - Paul J. Farrell, Imperial College, London, UK
• Chap. 5. Chromatin Structure of Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Episomes  – Paul M. Lieberman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
• Chap. 6. The epigenetic life cycle of Epstein-Barr virus - Wolfgang Hammerschmidt, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany. Chap. 7. Epstein-Barr virus: from the detection of sequence polymorphisms to the recognition of viral types - Regina Feederle, Olaf Klinke, Anton Kutikhin, Remy Poirey, Ming-Han Tsai and Henri-Jacques Delecluse, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
• Viral infection and associated diseases
• Chap. 8. EBV persistence – introducing the virus – David A. Thorley-Lawson, Tufts University, Boston, USA
• Chap. 9. Infectious mononucleosis – Samantha K. Dunmire, Kristin A. Hogquist and Henry H. Balfour, Jr., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• Chap. 10. Primary immunodeficiencies associated with EBV disease - Jeffrey I. Cohen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
• Chap. 11. Burkitt’s lymphoma – Rosemary Rochford  and Ann M. Moormann, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, and Upstate University of New York, Syracuse, USA
• Chap. 12. Contribution of the Epstein-Barr virus to the pathogenesis of Hodgkin lymphoma – Paul Murray and Andrew Bell, University of Birmingham, UK
• Chap. 13. The role of EBV in the pathogenesis of diffuse large B cell lymphoma – Jane A. Healy and Sandeep S. Dave, Duke University, Raleigh, USA
• Chap. 14. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma:  an evolving role for the Epstein Barr virus – Nancy Raab-Traub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.-Chap. 15. EBV and autoimmunity – Alberto Ascherio and Kassandra Munger, Harvard University, Boston, USA
• Index.