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- Presents current up-to-date methodologies
- Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
- Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1040)
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Table of contents (16 protocols)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
 Inflammasomes have a seemingly simple architecture. A sensor molecule of the NLR or PYHIN protein family recruits the common adapter molecule apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (ASC). Even so, inflammasome activation is highly regulated at multiple steps and precise details of how inflammasomes are activated at the molecular level remain largely unknown. In The Inflammasome: Methods and Protocols, expert researchers in the field detail methods and protocols to study multiple aspects of inflammasome function. These methods include the generation of inflammasome stimuli, perturbance of cellular homeostasis, assessment of ASC speck formation, monitoring of caspase-1 activity and processing, activation of IL-1β cytokines, and analysis of inflammasome assembly. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Christine M. De Nardo, Eicke Latz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Inflammasome
Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols
Editors: Christine M. De Nardo, Eicke Latz
Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-523-1
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Springer Protocols
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-522-4Published: 13 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6011-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-523-1Published: 13 July 2013
Series ISSN: 1064-3745
Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 225
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Cytokines and Growth Factors