Parasitic nematodes : molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology /

Inclusive of 20 chapters subdivided into 4 parts, this book's second edition covers latest updates in the current understanding of the molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology of parasitic nematodes of humans, domestic animals and plants. Specific topics discussed in each chapter include...

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Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
Edition:2nd edition.
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505 0 # |a The genome of Pristionchus pacificus and the evolution of parasitism / Ralf J. Sommer & Akira Ogawa -- Life-history plasticity and responses to host defence / Mark Viney -- The complex armory of plant-parasitic nematodes / David McK. Bird and Peter M. DiGennaro -- Innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes / Marie-Noe<U+00cc>¡lle Rosso, Nathalie Pujol and Jonathan J. Ewbank -- Nematodes and regulatory T cells / Katherine A. Smith and Rick M. Maizels -- The alternatively-activated macrophage / Dominik Ru<U+00cc>¡ckerl, Stephen Jenkins & Judith E. Allen -- Regulation of immunity and inflammation following intestinal helminth infection / Matthew Hepworth, Richard K. Grencis and David Artis -- Influence of nematodes on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related mycobacteriae : from disease outcome to immune responses / Subash Babu and Thomas B. Nutman -- Modulation of autoimmune and allergic responses by defined nematode molecules / William Harnett, Lamyaa Al-Riyami, Justyna Rzepecka and Margaret M. Harnett -- Genetics and mechanisms of drug resistance in nematodes / Roger Prichard and Anne Lespine -- Genetics of resistance to hookworm infection / Rupert J. Quinnell and Jerzy M. Behnke -- Vaccination against filarial nematodes / Sara Lustigman and Thomas R. Klei -- A vaccine against Haemonchus contortus : current status and future possibilities / David Knox -- Nematodes and human therapeutic trials / David E. Elliott, David Pritchard, Alan Brown and Joel V. Weinstock -- Nematode neuropeptide communication systems / Angela Mousley, Paul McVeigh, Johnathan J. Dalzell and Aaron G. Maule -- The Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts of filarial nematodes / Jeremy M. Foster, Achim Hoerauf, Barton E. Slatko and Mark J. Taylor -- The nematode cuticle-synthesis, modification and turnover / Antony P. Page -- Proteases of nematodes-from free-living to parasite / Collette Britton -- Nematode allergens / Svenja Steinfelder, Sebastian Rausch, Richard Lucius and Susanne Hartmann -- The unusual lipid binding proteins of nematodes : NPAS, nemFABPs and FARs / Malcolm W. Kennedy, Betina Corsico, Alan Cooper and Brian O. Smith. 
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520 3 # |a Inclusive of 20 chapters subdivided into 4 parts, this book's second edition covers latest updates in the current understanding of the molecular biology, biochemistry and immunology of parasitic nematodes of humans, domestic animals and plants. Specific topics discussed in each chapter include horizontal gene transfer, immune expulsion mechanisms, genetics of human susceptibility to nematode infections, nematode protein structure, nematode bacterial symbionts, and host immune system modulation by nematode parasites and their therapeutic potential for immunological diseases. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed July 25, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Nematodes. 
650 # 0 |a Parasites. 
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650 1 2 |a Nematoda  |x parasitology. 
650 2 2 |a Nematode Infections  |x immunology. 
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650 # 4 |a Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Non-Drug Therapy and Prophylaxis of Humans (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000) 
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650 # 7 |a Biochemistry.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Domestic animals.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Endosymbionts.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Endosymbiosis.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Gene transfer.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Genes.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Genetic factors.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Human diseases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immune response.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immune system.  |2 cabt 
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