Product Description: This unique textbook provides information on the dramatic advances taking place in the field of inflammatory (autoimmune) diseases and their therapies. Experts in many different medical fields – allergology, dermatology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, rheumatology etc...read more

Product Description: The difficulty in achieving effective translation of basic mechanistic biomedical knowledge into effective therapeutics, is the greatest challenge in biomedical research. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the reductionist approaches to understanding and manipulating the acute inflammatory response in the settings of sepsis, trauma/hemorrhage, wound healing, and related processes...read more

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Product Description: This book covers the physiological processes relevant to inflammation. Although the problem is addressed from a vascular perspective, pathological aspects are also considered. The book centers on the recruitment of leukocytes to sites of injury and infection, their function in the tissue, and the eventual resolution of inflammation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book provides comprehensive coverage of every aspect of inflammation, ranging from the cellular and humoral components of the inflammatory process to the pathogenesis of various clinical syndromes and the clinical experience with new anti-inflammatory drugs. This second edition includes a new section on cytokines and a section on responses to inflammation which examines wound healing, angiogenesis and heat shock proteins. The section on clinical syndromes features a new chapter on atherogenesis, an in-depth discussion of asbestosis as a model of chronic inflammation inducing neoplasia, and information on the effects of viruses on phagocyte. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Offering a comprehensive overview of laboratory research models and practical experimental protocols used in the study of inflammation, this volume discusses the development and therapeutic evaluation of new anti-inflammatory and anti-rheumatic drugs, including details of in vitro and in vivo models and methodologies...read more