Retroviral Immunology: Immune Response and Restoration

ISBN-13: 9781617371288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

Giuseppe Pantaleo; Bruce D. Walker

Opis

Although there have been many books on HIV and AIDS, surprisingly little has been published that focuses on the immunology of retroviral infections in general, and HIV in particular. Retroviral Immunology: Immune Response and Restoration is the first book of its kind to address the most important aspects of the immunology of retroviruses, including not only the virus-specific immune responses, but also genetic and virologic factors modulating these responses. The book also deals directly with the emerging concept of immune restora- tion in retroviral infections, a particularly important subject to the thousands of clinicians who deal with this problem on a daily basis. With the advent of highly effective antiviral drug regimens to slow down the replication of HIV and the progression of AIDS, new challenges and opportunities are arising. Restoration of general immune function has brought with it not only complica- tions of immune restoration-mediated disease, but also the realistic hope for meaningful restoration of the ability to control HIV replication with the immune system. Leading scientists in the field have summarized the most current informa- tion regarding experimental and clinical aspects of retroviral infections. Retroviral Immunology: Immune Response and Restoration should prove an impor- tant point of reference for basic scientists and clinicians in this area of research. We are indebted to all of our authors for their excellent contributions.

Spis treści

Epidemiological and Immunological Implications of the Global Variability of HIV-1 Bette T. Korber, Brian Foley, Brian Gaschen, and Carla Kuiken Role of Chemokines and Their Receptors in the Pathogenesis of HIV Infection Frederick S. Lee, Gabriele Kuschert, Otto O. Yang, and Andrew D. Luster Cytokines and Chemokines in HIV Infection Guido Poli Development and Reconstitution of T-Lymphoid Immunity Krishna V. Komanduri and Joseph M. McCune HIV Gene Products as Manipulators of the Immune System Aram Mangasarian and Didier Trono Immune Response to Murine and Feline Retroviruses Daniela Finke and Hans Acha-Orbea Immune Response to HTLV-I and HTLV-II Samantha S. Soldan and Steven Jacobson HIV-Specific Neutralizing Antibodies David C. Montefiori Cytotoxic T-Cell Responses in Acute and Chronic HIV-1 Infection Hugo Soudeyns and Giuseppe Pantaleo Characterization of the HIV-1-Specific T-Helper Cell Response Bruce D. Walker Immune Responses to Nonhuman Primate Lentiviruses Amitinder Kaur, Marie-Claire Gauduin, and R. Paul Johnson Intrahost Selective Pressure and HIV-1 Heterogeneity During Progression to AIDS Vladimir V. Lukashov and Jaap Goudsmit Polymorphism in HLA and Other Elements of the Class I and II Response Pathways Richard A. Kaslow and R. Pat Bucy Immunologic Approaches to the Therapy of Patients with HIV Infection H. Clifford Lane and Scott Seeley

O autorze

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 clinician 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.

Blurb

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.