Opis: Virus Escape from Immunosurveillance - M. Saveria Campo, Campo

Viruses must be able to overcome the host immune response to replicate themselves and produce infectious progeny. Although eventually the host immune response succeeds in eliminating viruses and virus-infected cells, viruses have evolved a variety of mechanisms to escape immuno surveillance and survive in a hostile environment. In addition to rapid antigenic variation (HIV), latent infection (herpesvirus) or modality of life cycle (papillomaviruses), these mechanisms include the production of viral proteins which actively fight the host immune response. The reviews in this book deal with the immuno modulators and inhibitors encoded by a variety of viruses, from the poxviruses, which are very well known in this respect, to the papillomaviruses, whose evasion from the host immune response has just begun being elucidated. In addition to being scientifically stimulating, the reviews, by highlighting the countermeasures operated by viruses to fight the host immune response, point the way to new potential anti-viral strategies.Immunity and counter-immunity during infection with the parapoxvirus orf virus, D.M. Haig, C.J. McInnes; A Pox on Thee! Manipulation of the Host Immune System by Myxoma Virus and Implications for Viral-Host Co-Adaptation, M.C. Zuniga; Poxvirus immune modulators: Functional insights from animal models, P.C. Turner, R.W. Moyer; Immune evasion by a novel family of viral PHD/LAP-finger proteins of gamma-2 herpesviruses and poxviruses, K. Fruh, E. Bartee et al; Manipulation of immune responses by Epstein-Barr Virus, V. Levitsky, M.G. Masucci; Adenoviral Inhibitors of Apoptotic Cell Death, A.L. McNees, L.R. Gooding; Evasion of host immunity directed by papillomavirus-encoded proteins, P.M. O'Brien, M.S. Campo; Retroviral proteins that target the major histocompatibility complex class I, J.M. Johnson, G. Franchini; Antigenic drift, antigenic shift and interferon antagonists: how bunyaviruses counteract the immune system, F. Weber, R.M. Elliot.

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Tytuł: Virus Escape from Immunosurveillance
Autor: M. Saveria Campo, Campo
Producent: Elsevier Science Publishers
ISBN: 9780444511294
Rok produkcji: 2002
Ilość stron: 136
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.42 kg

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