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Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases : Volume 1. Injury-Induced Innate Immune Responses

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Walter Gottlieb Land. --Cham: Springer , c2018.

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This book presents current understanding of the importance of modern immunology in the etiopathogenesis of human diseases and explores how this understanding is impacting on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prophylaxis. As the core of modern immunology, the "danger/injury model" is introduced and addressed throughout the book. Volume I of the book describes the network of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs) and examines the central role of DAMPs in cellular stress response…

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Author: Land, Walter Gottlieb

Responsibility: Walter Gottlieb Land

Alternate Title: Injury-induced innate immune responses

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2018

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xlviii, 870 p.) : 115 illus., 102 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783319786551; 9783319786544 (print ed.); 9783319786568 (print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Biomarkers - analysis; Immunologic Techniques; Molecular Medicine; Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern Molecules; Stress, Physiological - immunology; Wounds and Injuries - immunology

Specialty: Diagnosis; Molecular Medicine; Pathology

Abstract: This book presents current understanding of the importance of modern immunology in the etiopathogenesis of human diseases and explores how this understanding is impacting on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prophylaxis. As the core of modern immunology, the "danger/injury model" is introduced and addressed throughout the book. Volume I of the book describes the network of damage-associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs) and examines the central role of DAMPs in cellular stress responses and associated regulated cell death, the promotion and resolution of inflammation, the activation of innate lymphoid cells and unconventional T cells, the stimulation of adaptive immunity, and tissue repair. The significance of DAMPs in a wide range of human diseases will then be explored in Volume II of the book, with discussion of the implications of injury-induced innate immunity for present and future treatments. This book is written for professionals from all medical and paramedical disciplines who are interested in the introduction of innovative data from immunity and inflammation research into clinical practice. The readership will include practitioners and clinicians such as hematologists, rheumatologists, traumatologists, oncologists, intensive care anesthetists, endocrinologists such as diabetologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, pharmacists, and transplantologists.

Contents: Part I. The Three Major Paradigms in Modern Immunology -- Prologue: The Term "Immunity" over the Course of Time -- The Three Major Paradigms in Immunology -- Epilogue: What Major Paradigm in Immunology Comes Next? -- Part II. The Innate Immune System: an Organ of Perception Determined to Maintain Homeostasis -- Prologue: The Guardians of Homeostasis -- Innate Immune Recognition Molecules -- Epilogue: The Innate Immune System: a Global Player in Health and Disease -- Part III. The Whole Family of Mammalian Innate Immune Cells -- Prologue: The Whole Body as an Immune System? -- Mobile Innate Immune Cells -- Sessile Innate Immune Cells -- Epilogue: The Whole Body as an Immune Defence System -- Part IV. The World of DAMPs. Prologue: About DAMPs, PAMPs and MAMPs -- Endogenous DAMPs, Category I: Constitutively Expressed Native Molecules (Cat. I DAMPs) -- Endogenous DAMPs, Category II: Constitutively Expressed, Injury-Modified Molecules (Cat. II DAMPs) -- Endogenous DAMPs, Category III: Inducible DAMPs (Cat. III DAMPs) -- Exogenous DAMPs, Category IV (Cat. IV DAMPs) -- Epilogue: The Well-Dosed Work of DAMPs in their Commission to Restore and Maintain Homeostasis -- Part V. Cellular Stress Responses and Regulated Cell Death -- Prologue: Innate Immune Tools to Defend against Stressful Injury: Success and Failure -- Cell-Autonomous (Cell-Intrinsic) Stress Responses -- Regulated Cell Death -- Epilogue: The Horror of an Injury-Induced Avalanche of DAMPs -- Part VI. Innate Immune Effector Responses -- Prologue: The Various Facets of Innate Immune Effector Responses -- Cellular Inflammatory Responses -- Humoral Innate Immune Effector Responses -- Regulation of Innate Inflammatory Responses -- Epilogue to Part VI -- Part VII. Function of Innate Lymphoid Cells and Unconventional T Cells with Partial Innate Function -- Prologue: The "Ready-to-Go" Lymphocytes of the Immune System -- Activating and Function of Innate Lymphoid Cells -- Activating and Function of Unconventional T Cells -- Epilogue: Killer Lymphocytes as Tools for Future Immunotherapeutic Approaches -- Part VIII. DAMPs Promoting Adaptive Immunity and Tissue Repair -- Prologue: The "Long Arm" of DAMPs in Shaping Adaptive Immune Responses and Tissue Repairing Processes -- Antigen Uptake, Processing and Presentation by Dendritic Cells -- Antigen in the Presence of DAMPs Induces Immunostimulatory Dendritic Cells to Promote "Destructive" Acquired Immune Responses -- Antigen in the Absence of DAMPs Promotes Immunotolerance: the Role of Dendritic Cells and Regulatory T Cells -- An Impressive Example of Peripheral Tolerance against Nonself: Tolerance to Commensal Bacterial and Dietary Protein Antigens -- Immunometabolism of Dendritic Cells and T Cells -- Role of DAMPs in Tissue Regeneration and Repair -- Epilogue: DAMPs as Key Players in the Pathogenesis of Many Human Diseases.

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Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases : Volume 2: Danger Signals as Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Therapeutic Targets

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Walter Gottlieb Land. --Cham: Springer , c2020.

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This book is a continuance of the topic: “DAMPs in Human Diseases”, the basics of which were described in a first volume by the same author. This second volume presents our current understanding of the impact of sterile stress/injury-induced innate immune responses on the etiopathogenesis of human diseases by focusing on those diseases that are pathogenetically dominated by DAMPs, i.e., on polytrauma, various solid organ injuries (brain, lung, kidney, liver), atherosclerosis, and cerebro-cardio…

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Author: Land, Walter Gottlieb

Responsibility: Walter Gottlieb Land

Alternate Title: Danger signals as diagnostics, prognostics, and therapeutic targets

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2020

Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxix, 629 p.) : 45 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030538682; 9783030538675 (Print ed.); 9783030538699 (Print ed.); 9783030538705 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Biomarkers; Immunologic Techniques; Molecular Medicine; Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern Molecules; Stress, Physiological - immunology; Wounds and Injuries - immunology

Specialty: Diagnosis; Molecular Medicine; Pathology

Abstract: This book is a continuance of the topic: “DAMPs in Human Diseases”, the basics of which were described in a first volume by the same author. This second volume presents our current understanding of the impact of sterile stress/injury-induced innate immune responses on the etiopathogenesis of human diseases by focusing on those diseases that are pathogenetically dominated by DAMPs, i.e., on polytrauma, various solid organ injuries (brain, lung, kidney, liver), atherosclerosis, and cerebro-cardiovascular diseases. Our growing understanding of the pathogenetic function of activating DAMPs and suppressive DAMPs (“SAMPs”) is used as a point of departure to explore how these molecules can be used as biomarkers to extend and improve current diagnostic and prognostic modalities. Moreover, this new knowledge about the pathogenetic function of DAMPs and SAMPs is taken as a sound and plausible reason for discussing their implications for present and future treatment of the diseases addressed here. In this context, the focus is on the potential of DAMPs as future therapeutic targets and SAMPs as future therapeutics, applied in strict compliance with safety precautions, as also recommended in this work. The book is intended for professionals from all medical and paramedical disciplines who are interested in applying innovative data from inflammation and immunity research to clinical practice. The readership will include practitioners and clinicians working in the broad field of acute and chronic inflammatory/fibrotic diseases, in particular, traumatologists and intensivists; neurologists and neurosurgeons; cardiologists and cardiac surgeons; pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons; vascular surgeons; nephrologists; gastroenterologists and hepatologists; and pharmacists. Also available: Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases, Vol. 1: Injury-Induced Innate Immune Responses.

Contents: Part I. Prologue -- Perspectives of the Danger/Injury Model in Immunology -- Part II. A Select, Clinically Oriented Update of Topics Presented in “Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Human Diseases, Volume 1: Injury-Induced Innate Immune Responses" -- Pattern Recognition Molecules -- The Growing World of DAMPs -- The Growing Clinical Relevance of Cellular Stress Responses and Regulated Cell Death -- DAMP-Promoted Efferent Innate Immune Responses in Human Diseases: Inflammation -- DAMP-Promoted Efferent Innate Immune Responses in Human Diseases: Fibrosis -- Part III. DAMPs and SAMPs in Traumatic Disorders, Atherosclerosis, and Cerebro-Cardiovascular Diseases -- DAMPs and SAMPs as Molecular Biomarkers, Therapeutic Targets, and Therapeutics -- DAMP-Controlled and Uncontrolled Responses to Trauma: Wound Healing and Polytrauma -- Solid Organ Injury -- Atherosclerosis -- Cerebro - Cardiovascular Diseases -- Part IV. Epilogue -- The “DAMPome” as a Key Player in the Pathogenesis of Human Diseases.