Handbook of Dendritic Cells covers all aspects from molecular cell biology to clinical applications, highlighting the role of dendritic cells in fighting cancer, virus infections, and autoimmune diseases.

Contents

Dendritic Cell Biology

• Dendritic Cell Development
• Bone Marrow Progenitors of Dendritic and Natural Interferon-producing Cells
• Growth Factors
• Transcription Factors: Deciphering the Transcription Factor Network of Dendritic Cell Development
• Epidemial Langerhans Cells
• Characterization of Dendritic Cells and other APC in the Eye
• Toll-like Receptors
• C-Type Lectins on Dendritic Cells: Antigen Receptors and Modulators of Immune Response
• Scavenger Receptors on Dendritic Cells
• Production of the Long Pentraxin PTX-3 by Myeloid Dendritic Cells: Linking Cellular and Humoral Innate Immunity
• Gene Profiting of Dendritic Cells During Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Dendritic Cell Subtypes
• pDC: From Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Precursors to Professional Type 1 Interferon-producing Cells
• Monocyte Subsets and their Relation to DCs
• Steady State Migration of Dendritic Cells in Lymph
• Multiple Pathways to Control DC Migration
• Antigen Processing and Presentation: DC1d and NKT Cells
• The Role of Dendritic Cells in T-Cell Activation and Differentiation
• Cytokines Produced by Dendritic Cells
• The Plasticity of DC Populations in Promoting the Cell Responses
• Microbial Instruction of Dendritic Cells
• Crossprocessing and Crosspresentation
• A Systems Biologist's View on Dendritic Cells - Cytotoxic
• Dendritic Cells and Natural Killer Cells
• Interellular Communication via Protein Transfer
• Differentiation Stages and Subsets of Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells
• Dendritic Cell Manipulation with Biological and Pharmacological Agents to Induce Regulatory T Cells
• Surface Molecules Involved in the Induction of Tolerance by Dendritic Cells
• Interaction Between Dendritic Cells and Apoptotic Cells
• Pharmacologically Modified Dendritic Cells: A Route to Tolerance-associated Genes

Dendritic Cells in Disease

• Malaria
• Dendritic Cells in Leishmaniasis: Regulators of Immunity and Tools for New Immune Intervention Strategies
• Sentinel and Regulatory Functions of Dendritic Cells in the Immune Response to Toxoplasma Gondii
• Schistosoma
• Dendritic Cells and Immunity to Salmonella
• Dendritic Cells in Tuberculosis
• Dendritic Cell-Epithelial Cell Interactions in Response to Intestinal Bacteria
• Sleeping with the Enemy: The Insidious Relationship Between Dendritic Cells and Immunodeficiency Viruses
• Cytomegalovirus Infection of Dendritic Cells
• Interactions of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses with Dendritic Cells
• Dendritic Cells in Measles Virus Pathogenesis
• Dendritic Cells and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1
• Epstein-Barr Virus
• Dendritic Cells in Immunity and Vaccination against Fungi
• Dendritic Cells in Autoimmune Diseases
• Role of Dendritic Cells in Graft Rejection and Graft-versus-host-Disease
• Dendritic Cells and Transplantation Tolerance
• Dendritic Cells, Immune Regulation and Transplant Tolerance
• Nickel Presentation to T Cells in Contact Hypersensitivity
• Dendritic Cells in Asthma
• Dendritic Cells in Human Cancer

Therapeutical Application of Dendritic Cells

• Dendritic Cell Subsets as Targets and Vectors for Vaccination
• Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Cross Presentation and Loading of Tumor Antigens for Dendritic Cell Vacciniation against Cancer
• Nucleic Acid Transfer

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