Dendritic Cell Interactions with Bacteria

Dendritic Cell Interactions with Bacteria (Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology)
by Maria Rescigno (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 266 pages
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (May 21, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0521855861

Book Description
Emerging evidence suggests that dendritic cells play a major role in the orchestration of the immune response to bacteria. This volume introduces the reader to the complex world of dendritic cells and describes how the intimate interplay between dendritic cells, bacteria and the environment dictates either the induction of immunity or tolerance to the encountered microorganisms. It discusses how this can allow organisms to tolerate beneficial bacteria and to react against pathogens, as well as the strategies pathogenic bacteria have evolved to escape dendritic cell patrolling. Expert contributors discuss everything from bacterial capture and recognition to their killing, processing and the induction of adaptive immunity. Particular focus is on the tissue context in which bacteria are handled by dendritic cells and on possible defects therein, which may potentially lead to chronic infection or inflammation. Graduate students and researchers will find this an invaluable overview of current dendritic cell biology research.

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The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Third Edition

The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Third Edition (Mycology Series)
by John Dighton (Editor), James F. White Jr. (Editor), Peter Oudemans (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 960 pages
* Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (May 24, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0824723554

Book Description
The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Third Edition addresses many of the questions related to the observations, characterizations, and functional attributes of fungal assemblages and their interaction with the environment and other organisms. This edition promotes awareness of the functional methods of classification over taxonomic methods, and approaches the concept of fungal communities from an ecological perspective, rather than from a fungicentric view. It has expanded to examine issues of global and local biodiversity, the problems associated with exotic species, and the debate concerning diversity and function. The third edition also focuses on current ecological discussions - diversity and function, scaling issues, disturbance, and invasive species - from a fungal perspective. In order to address these concepts, the book examines the appropriate techniques to identify fungi, calculate their abundance, determine their associations among themselves and other organisms, and measure their individual and community function. This book explains attempts to scale these measures from the microscopic cell level through local, landscape, and ecosystem levels. The totality of the ideas, methods, and results presented by the contributing authors points to the future direction of mycology.

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