Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 21)
Language: English
Published by Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Edited by Holger Heine, this collection of ten contributed chapters compares innate immunity in organisms across the evolutionary tree. It begins with plants, with a chapter on how resistance genes evolved, then turns to cnidarians. Two chapters on Drosophila melanogaster follow, one on humoral immune responses and one on cellular ones. Other chapters cover immune reactions in the urochordates, the closest invertebrate relatives of the vertebrates, and the innate immune system of the zebrafish. The later chapters move to mammals and humans, dealing with the main receptor systems, antimicrobial peptides and defense mechanisms. A chapter on the complement system in innate immunity closes the volume.
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- Title
- Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 21)
- Author
- Heine, Holger
- Publisher
- Springer, Berlin
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3540739297
- ISBN 13
- 9783540739296
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 14.0 x 4.0 inches
- Seller catalogs
- Science, Science & Mathematics
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.
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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.
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