Chemokines and Viral Infection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lane, Thomas E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 303
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.

This edition of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology examines the role of chemokines and chemokine receptors in host defense and disease development following viral infection. Chemokines represent a family of over 40 small proteins that, for the most part, are secreted into the environment...

Table of Contents:

• Functional Diversity of Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors in Response to Viral Infection of the Central Nervous System
• Cytokine and Chemokine Networks: Pathways to Antiviral Defense
• Herpes Simplex Virus and the Chemokines That Mediate the Inflammation
• Influence of Proinflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines on the Neuropathogenesis of Oncornavirus and Immunosuppressive Lentivirus Infections
• HIV-1 Coreceptors and Their Inhibitors
• A Viral Conspiracy: Hijacking the Chemokine System Through Virally Encoded Pirated Chemokine Receptors.