Retroviral Immunology (eBook, PDF)

Immune Response and Restoration
Redaktion: Pantaleo, Giuseppe; Walker, Bruce D.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last decade much has been written about HIV and AIDS, although there has been surprisingly very little written on the immunology of retroviral infections, in general, and on HIV in particular. In Retroviral Immunology: Immune Response and Restoration, world-renowned authorities address the most important aspects of the immunology of retroviruses, namely, immune response, genetic and virologic factors modulating the response, and the HIV-specific humoral and cell-mediated responses. In addition to the basic concepts of immune restoration, key topics covered include immune restoration after antiviral therapy-a highly important subject to the thousands of clinicians who deal with the problem on a daily basis-and vaccine-induced immune response. Up-to-date and authoritative, Retroviral Immunology: Immune Response and Restoration provides a much-needed critical synthesis of both the experimental and clinical aspects of retroviral infections, and lays the groundwork for developing effective restoration strategies for the many immune-compromised HIV and AIDS patients who suffer fatal opportunistic infections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Humana Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781592591107
• Artikelnr.: 44053807

Autorenporträt

Dr. Walker is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for AIDS Research at Harvard University; Director of the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital; and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He obtained his undergraduate training at the University of Colorado and the Swiss Federal Technical Institute, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Following an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases in the laboratory of Dr. Robert T. Schooley, studying the cellular immune response to HIV in infected persons. He now spends the majority of his time in the laboratory studying immune responses in chronic viral infections. His basic science research focuses on cellular immune responses to HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Dr. Walker also continues his work as a cli

nician with a specialty is infectious disease, focusing on the treatment of persons with HIV/AIDS. In addition, he has been involved in collaborative research in Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, where he helped to establish a state of the art AIDS Research Center to serve sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Epidemiological and Immunological Implications of the Global Variability of HIV-1.- 2 Role of Chemokines and Their Receptors in the Pathogenesis of HIV Infection.- 3 Cytokines and Chemokines in HIV Infection.- 4 Development and Reconstitution of T-Lymphoid Immunity.- 5 HIV Gene Products as Manipulators of the Immune System.- 6 Immune Response to Murine and Feline Retroviruses.- 7 Immune Response to HTLV-I and HTLV-II.- 8 HIV-Specific Neutralizing Antibodies.- 9 Cytotoxic T-Cell Responses in Acute and Chronic HIV-1 Infection.- 10 Characterization of the HIV-1-Specific T-Helper Cell Response.- 11 Immune Responses to Nonhuman Primate Lentiviruses.- 12 Intrahost Selective Pressure and HIV-1 Heterogeneity During Progression to AIDS.- 13 Polymorphism in HLA and Other Elements of the Class I and II Response Pathways.- 14 Immunologic Approaches to the Therapy of Patients with HIV Infection.