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  title info:
    title: Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals, and Humans
  name:
    name part: Heine, Holger.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 241 p. online resource.
  abstract: All living organisms are in a constant battle against their environment. Since uncontained microorganisms would simply overgrow all higher animals, the evolution of multicellular organisms required adequate and efficient defense mechanisms to protect their own integrity and to ensure their own survival. These defense mechanisms, encompassing receptor proteins that sense the presence of pathogens and effector molecules that are involved in controlling them, are the elemental parts of the innate immune system. For many species, the innate immune system is the sole active defense system. Long thought to be an unspecific immune response, the discovery of the Toll-like receptors and their ligands finally revealed just how specific the innate immune response actually is. This book wants to give an overview of our current knowledge about the innate immune system of plants, animals and humans. It not only covers the innate immune mechanisms and responses of so diverse organisms such as plants, Cnidaria, Drosophila, urochordates and zebrafish, but also the major receptor systems in mammalians and humans as well as the central defense mechanisms, antimicrobial peptides and the complement system.
  table of contents: Evolution of Resistance Genes in Plants -- The Path Less Explored: Innate Immune Reactions in Cnidarians -- Bug Versus Bug: Humoral Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster -- Cellular Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster -- Immune Reactions in the Vertebrates' Closest Relatives, the Urochordates -- Innate Immune System of the Zebrafish, Danio rerio -- Toll-Like Receptors in the Mammalian Innate Immune System -- NLRs: a Cytosolic Armory of Microbial Sensors Linked to Human Diseases -- Antimicrobial Peptides as First-Line Effector Molecules of the Human Innate Immune System -- The Complement System in Innate Immunity.
  note: edited by Holger Heine.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Cell biology
  subject:
    topic: Developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Cell Biology
  subject:
    topic: Immunology
  subject:
    topic: Biochemistry, general
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Biology
  classification: QH573-671
  classification: 571.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 21
  identifier: 9783540739302
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73930-2
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152049.0
    record identifier: 978-3-540-73930-2