Bookeditors, Michael T. Lotze, Angus W. Thomson.
Contents:
Chapter 1, Developmental stages and pathways of NK cell maturation / Bartosz Grzywacz, Jeffery S. Miller, Michael R. Verneris
Chapter 2. Developmental origins of thymus-derived natural killer cells / James R. Carlyle, Juan C. Zúñiga-Pflücker
Chapter 3. Interferon-producing killer dendritic cells (IKDC) / Franck Housseau
Chapter 4. Natural killer cells in cancer / Petter Höglund, Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren
Chapter 5. NK cell immune recognition: NKG2D ligands and stressed cells / Carlos López-Larrea, Alejandro López-Soto, Segundo González
Chapter 6. NK cell KIR heterogeneity and evolution / Makoto Yawata, Nobuyo Yawata
Chapter 7. Signalling events in natural killer cells / P.K. Epling-Burnette, Sheng Wei, Julie Y. Djeu
Chapter 8. Human natural killer cell development / Edward L. Briercheck, Aharon G. Freud, Michael A. Caligiuri
Chapter 9. Isolation, culture and propagation of natural killer cells / Michael Magee, Lazar N. Vujanovic, Lisa H. Butterfield, Nikola L. Vujanovic
Chapter 10. The localization and migration of natural killer cells in health and disease / Vasileios Bekiaris, Peter J.L. Lane
Chapter 11. Receptors on NK cells / Noam Stern-Ginossar, Ofer Mandelboim
Chapter 12. Development and testing of NK cell lines / Hans Klingemann
Chapter 13. NK cell-derived cytokines and delivery: NK cell synapses / Claudia Semino, Anna Rubartelli
Chapter 14. NK cells as recipients of cytokine signals / Tara J. Loux, Michael T. Lotze, Herbert J. Zeh III
Chapter 15. NK cells and chemokines / Angela Gismondi, Giovanni Bernardini, Angela Santoni
Chapter 16. Natural killer cytolytic activity / Lesley R. de Armas, Eckhard R. Podack
Chapter 17. Illuminating intranodal natural killer cell behaviour using two-photon microscopy / Kym R. Garrod, Michael D. Cahalan
Chapter 18. Dendritic cells and NK cells / Amy K. Wesa, Robbie B. Mailliard
Chapter 19. NK and NKT cells: The innate-adaptive interface including humoral responses / Jeff Subleski, Jonathan M. Weiss, Robert H. Wiltrout, John R. Ortaldo
Chapter 20. NK cell and endothelial cell interactions / Angela Gismondi, Claudia Carlino, Helena Stabile, Angela Santoni
Chapter 21. Natural killer cell/epithelial interactions / Taisuke Ito, Masao Takei, Ralf Paus
Chapter 22. NK cell-T cell interactions / Benedict J. Chambers
Chapter 23. NK cells and NKT cells in cutaneous disorders / Anna Balato, Anthony A. Gaspari
Chapter 24. Natural killer cells in the respiratory tract / Borna Mehrad
Chapter 25. Intestinal natural killer cells / Martin R. Goodier
Chapter 26. Natural killer cells in the liver / Shiguang Qian, Jia Fan, Shuang-Jian Qiu, Yong-sheng Xiao, Lina Lu
Chapter 27. Natural killer cells in the spleen and lymph node / Alex Karlsson-Parra
Chapter 28. Nature killer cells in the central nervous system / Fu-Dong Shi, Richard M. Ransohoff
Chapter 29. NK cells in the eye / Jerry Y. Niederkorn
Chapter 30. NK cells and reproduction / Ashley Moffett, Victoria H. Male
Chapter 31. Identification of natural killer cells in tissues and their isolation / Paolo Carrega, Erika Montalto, Guido Ferlazzo
Chapter 32. Natural killer cell immune regulation: Coordination of immune function in tissues / Lorenzo Moretta, Alessandro Moretta
Chapter 33. Natural killer cells and transplantation / Benjamin M. Matta, Angus W. Thomson
Chapter 34. Natural killer cells and autoimmunity / Christian Münz
Chapter 35. Interaction of NK cells with bacteria / Kenji Chamoto, Daiko Wakita, Shinichi Koizumi, Kazutaka Masuko, Takayuki Ikeda, Rieko Mitamura, Takashi Nishimura
Chapter 36. Natural killer cells and human immunodeficiency virus / Domenico Mavilio, Anne Hosmalin, Daniel Scott-Algara
Chapter 37. Cytomegalovirus infection and NK cells / Jerome D. Coudert, Christopher E. Andoniou, Mariapia A. Degli-Esposti
Chapter 38. Natural killer cells in allergy / Syh-Jae Lin, Yen-Chang Lee, Dah-Chin Yan, Ming-Ling Kuo
Chapter 39. Natural killer cells in wound healing / Jussi Liippo, Mervi Toriseva, Veli-Matti Kähäri
Chapter 40. Natural killer cells in atherosclerosis / Godfrey S. Getz, Catherine A. Reardon
Chapter 41. Natural killer cells in leukaemia / Jérôme Rey, Cyril Fauriat, Alessandro Moretta, Régis Costello, Daniel Olive
Chapter 42. Natural killer cells and allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation / Andrea Velardi
Chapter 43. Clinical trials of NK cells for cancer / Sarah Cooley, Jeffrey S. Miller
Chapter 44. Natural killer cells and hepatitis C virus infection / Michael A. Nalesnik, Tatsuya Kanto
Chapter 45. Natural killer cells and the biology of parasitism / Marianne A. Bryan, Karen A. Norris
Chapter 46. Lymphoproliferative disorders of natural killer cells / William G. Morice
Chapter 47. Natural killer cell induction of tolerance / Lina Lu, Alexandra Y. Zhang, William L. Camp, Shiguang Qian
Chapter 48. Genetic engineering of natural killer cells / Stephen R. Goding, Per H. Basse
Chapter 49. NK cell-mediated target cell death / Beverly Z. Packard, Akira Komoriya, David S. Ucker
Chapter 50. NK-cell tracking using non-invasive imaging modalities / Priyanka Jha, Verena Reinhart, Christiane Knopp, Siyuan Liu, Winfried S. Wels, Michael F. Wendland, Heike Daldrup-Link.