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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: MIF. Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2007 (OCoLC)745978869 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Bucala |
ISBN: | 9789812706485 9812706488 |
OCLC Number: | 122499855 |
Description: | xii, 317 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Historical overview / John R. David -- MIF "rediscovered" / Richard Bucala -- Immunopathologic mechanisms relevant to diseases / Hui Y. Lan -- Structural studies of MIF / Elias Lolis and Gregg Crichlow -- MIF redox activity / Jürgen Bernhgaen -- MIF receptor-mediated signal transduction / Lin Leng -- MIF in innate immunity and infectious diseases / Chloé Kaech, Thierry Roger and Thierry Calandra -- MIF in parasitic and helminthic infections / Heidi M. Snider, Claudio Lezama-Davila, Miriam Rodríguez-Sosa, Luis I. Terrazas and Abhay R. Satoskar -- MIF in the pathogenesis of kidney disease / Gregory H. Tesch, Robert C. Atkins and David J. Nikolic-Paterson -- MIF and CNS autoimmune disease / Claudia M. Denkinger and Thomas G. Forsthuber -- MIF : wound repair / Matthew J. Hardman and Gillian S. Ashcroft -- MIF and atherosclerosis / Christian Weber and Andreas Schober -- Inflammatory arthritis / Eric F. Morand and Michelle Leech -- Gene structures and functional MIF polymorphisms in respiratory disease / John Baugh -- MIF alleles in infammatory arthritis / Rachelle Donn and David Ray -- Adhesion-dependent signaling and growth control / Robert Mitchell. |
Responsibility: | editor, Richard Bucala. |
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Abstract:
Researchers have identified a pivotal, upstream role for macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) in the innate immune response. This book describes this renaissance of knowledge in the biology of MIF. It also discusses the role of MIF as a therapeutic target.
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