Advances in Immunology: Volume 84

ISBN-13: 9780120224845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 296 str.

Frederick Alt

Opis

Advances in Immunology presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology. Articles address the wide range of topics that comprise immunology, including molecular and cellular activation mechanisms, phylogeny and molecular evolution, and clinical modalities. Edited and authored by the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for future research.

• Interactions between NK Cells and B Lymphocytes
• Multitasking of helix-loop-helix proteins in lymphopoiesis
• The pathogenesis of Diabetes in the NOD Mouse

Spis treści

Interactions between NK Cells and B Lymphocytes
Multitasking of helix-loop-helix proteins in lymphopoiesis
Customized antigens for desensitizing allergic patients
The immune response atainst dying tumor cells
HMGB1 in the Immunology of Sepsis (not Spetic Shock) and Arthritis
Selection of the T cell repertoire: Receptor-controlled checkpoints in T cell development
The pathogenesis of Diabetes in the NOD Mouse

O autorze

Frederick W. Alt is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator and Director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM) at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH). He is the Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He works on elucidating mechanisms that generate antigen receptor diversity and, more generally, on mechanisms that generate and suppress genomic instability in mammalian cells, with a focus on the immune and nervous systems. Recently, his group has developed senstive genome-wide approaches to identify mechanisms of DNA breaks and rearrangements in normal and cancer cells. He has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, and the European Molecular Biology Organization. His awards include the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, the Novartis Prize for Basic Immunology, the Lewis S. Rosensteil Prize for Distinugished work in Biomedical Sciences, the Paul Berg and Arthur Kornberg Lifetime Achievement Award in Biomedical Sciences, and the William Silan Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School.