Overview
- Most recent summary of the uses of molecular biology as a tool for studies of cytokines in invertebrates
- Cytokines are molecules involved in the signaling pathway of wounding and immune responses
Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology (PMSB, volume 34)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Based on the assumption that invertebrates as well as vertebrates possess factors regulating hematopoiesis, response to infection or wounding, studies dealing with the evolution of immunity have focused on the isolation and characterization of putative cytokine-related molecules from invertebrates. Until recently, most of our knowledge of cytokine- and cytokine receptor-like molecules in invertebrates has relied on functional assays and similarities at the physicochemical level. As such, a phylogenetic relationship between invertebrate cytokine-like molecules and invertebrate counterparts could not be convincingly demonstrated.
In the present book, recent studies demonstrating cytokine-like activities and related signaling pathways in invertebrates are critically reviewed, focusing on findings from molecular biology and taking advantage of the completion of the genome from the fly Drosophila and the worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Invertebrate Cytokines and the Phylogeny of Immunity
Book Subtitle: Facts and Paradoxes
Editors: Alain Beschin, Werner E. G. Müller
Series Title: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18670-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-40407-1Published: 10 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62236-6Published: 22 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-18670-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0079-6484
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 184
Topics: Cell Biology, Immunology, Biochemistry, general