Evolution and Pathogenesis of the Involvement of the Cardiovascular System in HIV Infection -- Pathogenesis of HAART-Associated Metabolic Syndrome -- Pathology of Cardiac Complications in HIV Infection -- Pathology of Peripheral and Coronary Vessels in AIDS Patients -- Coronary Heart Disease in HIV-Infected Patients: Epidemiology -- Coronary Artery Disease in HIV-Infected Patients: Clinical Pre…
Anthrax: A Disease and a Weapon -- Plague as a Biological Weapon -- Tularemia and Bioterrorism -- Melioidosis and Glanders as Possible Biological Weapons -- Smallpox as a Weapon for Bioterrorism -- Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses as Biological Weapons -- Botulism as a Potential Agent of Bioterrorism -- Ricin: A Possible, Noninfectious Biological Weapon -- Bioterrorism Alert for Health Care Workers --…
TLRs as bacterial sensors -- Toll-like receptors and rheumatoid arthritis: is there a connection? -- Toll-like receptor 9 and systemic autoimmune diseases -- Toll-like receptors and airway disease -- Toll-like receptors and vascular disease -- Toll-like receptors and inflammatory bowel disease -- Toll-like receptor signaling in the liver -- Toll-like receptors as key sensors of viral infection …
Schistosomes and Their Snail Hosts -- Schistosome Retrotransposons -- Gender-Specific Biology of Schistosoma Mansoni: -- Schistosoma Genomics -- Vaccine Development -- The Surface of Schistosomes within the Vertebrate Host -- The Application of DNA Microarrays in the Functional Genomic Study of Schistosome/Host Biology -- The Initiation of Host Immune Responses to Schistosome Egg Antigens -- Im…
Mechanisms of immunity -- Hematopoiesis, including lymphocyte development and maturation -- T cell-mediated immunity -- Antibody diversity and B cell-mediated immunity -- Cytokines -- Innate immunity — phagocytes, natural killer cells and the complement system -- Inflammatory mediators and intracellular signalling -- Immune response in human pathology: infections caused by bacteria, viruses, …
Smallpox in Human History -- Classification of Poxviruses and Brief Characterization of the Genus Orthopoxvirus -- Vaccinia Virus -- Variola (Smallpox) Virus -- Monkeypox Virus -- Cowpox Virus -- Molecular Evolution of Orthopoxviruses -- Laboratory Diagnostics of Human Orthopoxvirus Infections -- Preparedness and Response to Potential Bioterrorism.Orthopoxviruses Pathogenic for Humans covers th…
Innate Immunity in Autoimmune Diseases -- Innate Immunity in Experimental Autoimmune Myocarditis -- Toll-like Receptor 9 and Autoimmunity -- C-Reactive Protein as a Regulator of Autoimmune Disease -- NKT Cells and Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes -- Genetics of Autoimmune Diseases -- The Genetics of Human Autoimmune Diseases -- Failure to Maintain T Cell DNA Methylation and Chromatin Structure Contri…
Viruses and the Innate Immune System -- How Viruses Elicit Interferon Production -- Genes Modulated by Interferons and Double-Stranded RNA -- Immunoevasive Strategies: Host and Virus -- Interferon Antagonists of Influenza Viruses -- The Anti-Interferon Mechanisms of Paramyxoviruses -- The Strategy of Conquest -- Immunomodulation by Poxviruses -- Interferon Antagonists Encoded by Emerging RNA Vi…
Effects of Cocaine and Morphine Withdrawal on the Immune Response -- Biological Links between Cannabinoids and HIV Infection -- Cannabinoids and Herpesviruses -- Cannabinoids and Susceptibility to Neurological Infection by Free-Living Amebae -- Legionella Infection and Cannabinoids -- Nicotine and Immunity -- Nicotine Receptors and Infections -- Immunomodulatory Effects of Cigarette Smoke/Nicot…
Emerging Infections and Children: Influenza and Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy -- Chickenpox Party or Varicella Vaccine? -- The ABC of Epstein-Barr Virus Infections -- The Immune Response to Viral Lower Respiratory Tract Infection -- Chronic Granulomatous Disease: From Genetic Defect to Clinical Presentation -- Novel Primary Immunodeficiencies -- Periodic Fever -- BCG Vaccine -- Helminth Infe…