Parasitic nematodes : molecular biology, biochemistry, and immunology /
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| Imprint: | New York : CABI Pub., c2001. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 486 p. : ill. ; |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4478688 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Evolution of parasitism and life history adaptations
- 1. The genome of Pristionchus and the evolution of parasitism
- 2. Life history placticity and responses to host defense
- 3. Horizontal gene transmission in plant parasites
- 4. Innate Immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Part 2. Modulation of the host immune response
- 5. Nematodes and T regulatory cells
- 6. The alternatively activated macrophage
- 7. Modulation of autoimmune and allergic responses by defined nematode molecules
- 8. Tracking the host response in nematode immunity
- 9. Nematodes and regulation of the inflammatory response
- Part 3. Genetics of susceptibility and resistance
- 10. Susceptibility of humans to Ascaris
- 11. Genetics of resistance to hookworm
- 12. Population genetics and anthelmintic resistance to nematodes of domestic animals
- 13. Asthma, allergy and parasitic worm infections
- 14. Genetics of susceptibility - wild animals
- Part 4. Protection systems - Immune effectors, therapeutics, vaccines
- 15. Wolbachia as a therapeutic target
- 16. Intestinal immune rejection mechanisms, specific and non-specific
- 17. Nematodes and human therapeutic trials
- 18. Vaccination against hookworms
- 19. Vaccination against filarial nematodes
- 20. Vaccination against nematodes of domestic animals
- 21. Immune regulation and multiple species infections
- 22. Effect of nematode infection on the immune response to other pathogens
- 23. Genetics of drug resistance in nematodes
- Part 5. Specialised and novel structures
- 24. Nervous system and neural communication molecules
- 25. Host cell and tissue modification
- 26. Cuticle synthesis and modification
- 27. Proteinases, from free-living to parasite
- 28. Nematode polyprotein structure
