Overview
- Provides the most comprehensive review of contemporary knowledge of the chaperokine activity of heat shock proteins (HSP) in biology and medicine
- Contains chapters contributed by specialists from key basic and clinical research laboratories at major universities, academic medical hospitals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical laboratories around the world
- An important source of reference for researchers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the fields of Translational Medicine, Clinical Psychology, Human Physiology, Zoology, Botany, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Infectious Disease, Pathology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as for researchers involved in Drug Discovery.
Part of the book series: Heat Shock Proteins (HESP, volume 16)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Immunological and Inflammatory Responses
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Chaperokine, is a term that describes the unique function of extracellular heat shock protein (eHsp) as both chaperone and cytokine. The cellular consequence of binding and signaling of eHsp is the stimulation of a potent and long lasting immune response. eHsp induces a plethora of immune responses including the release of bioactive mediators like cytokines, chemokines, nitric oxide, apotogenic mediator, stimulation of the innate and adaptive immune response, migration and maturation of dendritic cells (DC) and the enhancement of natural killer cell-mediated cellular cytotoxicity.
The book Chaperokine Activity of Heat Shock Proteins provides the most comprehensive review on contemporary knowledge on the chaperokine activity of heat shock proteins (HSP) in biology and medicine. Using an integrative approach to understanding the chaperokine activity of HSP, the contributors provide a synopsis of novel mechanisms, signal transduction pathways and how the principlesof the chaperokine activity of HSP has been harnessed for therapeutic gain.
To enhance the ease of reading and comprehension this book has been subdivided into various section, including; Section I, reviews current progress on our understanding of Immunological and Inflammatory Responses; Section II, evaluates the role of Physiological Responses and Section III, focuses the reader on the Therapeutic Approach.
Key basic and clinical research laboratories from major universities, academic medical hospitals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical laboratories around the world have contributed chapters that review present research activity and importantly project the field into the future. The book is a must read for researchers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the fields of Translational Medicine, Clinical Psychologists, Human Physiology, Zoologists, Botanists, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Infectious Diseases Experts, Pathologists, Pharmaceutical Scientists and Researchers involved in Drug Discovery.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chaperokine Activity of Heat Shock Proteins
Editors: Alexzander A. A. Asea, Punit Kaur
Series Title: Heat Shock Proteins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02254-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02253-2Published: 20 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02254-9Published: 01 February 2019
Series ISSN: 1877-1246
Series E-ISSN: 1877-1254
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 320
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Protein Science