Author: Mike Ludwig
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: release, neurotransmitter, dendritic
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2004-12-08
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0387229337
ISBN-13: 9780387229331

This text will highlight the mechanisms and consequences of dendritic transmitter release, with an emphasis on the mechanisms that generate such processing and how these can induce state-dependent plasticity in the processing. This volume will be out of broad significance, expanding the understanding of the spectrum of dendritic mechanisms for neural processing. It will demonstrate that dendritic release that likely occurs throughout the brain is a key feature in the control of information transfer in neural networks, through cross-talk and autorcontrol by paracine/autocrine mechanisms.

Authors:Michael R. Shurin, Russell D. Salter,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cancer, cells, dendritic
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0387886109
ISBN-13: 9780387886107

It covers all aspects of DC generation, function, survival and antitumor activity in the tumor environment both in vivo and in experimental in vitro systems. The goal in focusing on a spectrum of issues related to DC in cancer is to provide an extensive and expansive review rather than a collection of independent analyses from different authors. Specific topics to be covered include analysis of DC behavior in the tumor microenvironment, including endogenous and exogenous DC, multiple DC populations, molecular pathways responsible for DC dysfunction, tumor-derived factors altering DC polarizat

Authors:Morikazu Onji, Sk. Md. Fazle Akbar,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: clinics, cells, dendritic
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 4431794654
ISBN-13: 9784431794653

Great advances have taken place in basic research and the clinical usefulness of dendritic cells (DCs). It has now been clearly established, for instance, that these cells play a crucial role in immune responses against infectious diseases and cancers. Antigen-presenting DCs are widely distributed in the body and regulate both immunity and immune tolerance. Experimental studies have provided important insights into DCs and how they can be used for treating animal models of various diseases that occur in humans. The role of these cells in pathogenesis and the treatment of human diseases is elab

Authors:Sandra Gessani, Filippo Belardelli,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: infection, hiv, cells, dendritic, biology
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2007-02-07
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0387337849
ISBN-13: 9780387337845

Dendritic cells play the most vital part in inducing anti-viral immune responses in HIV and AIDS among many other viruses. Research on dendritic cells (DCs) is emerging as a fundamental aspect for the comprehension of the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of viral diseases as well as for the progress on the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. This volume focuses on the role of DCs in the pathogenesis and immunity of HIV-1 infection. It has recently been clarified that DCs are important targets and reservoirs of HIV and may play an important role in virus spreading to

Authors:Sergiy Mikhailovich Korogod, Suzanne Tyc-Dumont,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: space, dendritic, dynamics, electrical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521896770
ISBN-13: 9780521896771

The authors explain how the whole dendritic arborization contributes to the generation of various output discharges and elucidate the mechanisms of the transfer function of all dendritic sites. Their alternative modelling approach to conventional models introduces the notion of a functional dendritic space, and they have concentrated on a detailed spatial description of the electrical states at all dendritic sites when the dendrites operate. By analyzing the electrical dendritic space in which all the signals are processed, the authors provide tools to explore the spatial dimension of the tran

Authors:Giovanna Lombardi, Yanira Riffo-Vasquez,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: pharmacology, experimental, handbook, cells, dendritic
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 2008-12-16
List price: $429.00
ISBN-10: 3540710280
ISBN-13: 9783540710288

This book provides in the first part an overview of dendritic cell (DC) biology and the role of DCs in some human diseases. The second part of the book illustrates some of the way that DCs can be manipulated for immunotherapy to either induce tolerance in autoimmunity and transplantation or enhance the immune responses such as in infection or cancer.

Author: Jian-Jun Xu
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: advances, mechanics, mathematics, flow, convective, theory, dendritic, growth, dynamical
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1402079249
ISBN-13: 9781402079245

Convective flow in the liquid phase is always present in a realistic process of freezing and melting and may significantly affect the dynamics and results of the process. The study of the interplay of growth and convection flow during the solidification has been an important subject in the broad fields of materials science, condensed matter physics, fluid physics, micro-gravity science, etc. The present book is concerned with the dynamics of free dendritic growth with convective flow in the melt. It systematically presents the results obtained in terms of a unified asymptotic approach