Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Section I . The Inflammatory Response — Progress in Plasma Proteins: Hallmarks of Health and Markers of Disease — Plasma Proteins Implicated in the Inflammatory Response — Acute Inflammatory Process — The Inflammatory Response — Relationships between Acute Non-Specific Inf lamination and Non-Specific Defense Mechanisms of the Host — The Role of Thrombocytes in Inflammation — Section II. Acute Phase Reactants — Clinical Usefulness of C Reactive Protein Measurement — Control Proteins of the Alternative Complement Pathway In Vivo Correlates of In Vitro Function — Plasma Fibronectin, its Biochemical and Biological Properties and its Pathological Changes in Man — Interaction between C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Platelets — Interactions between CRP and Mononuclear Cells — Clinical Usefulness of Orosomucoid Determination — Alpha1 Acid Glycoprotein - Structure, Genetics and Biological Significance — Alphai1-Antitrypsin Structure and Genetics — Affinity-Immunodeletion (AID) Isoelectric Focusing on Ultra-Thin Gels and Staining with Silver Diamine Applied to the Marker Proteins of Inflammation — A Survey of the Measurement, Distribution of Values and Phenotypes of the Haptoglobins — Recent Findings on the Biological Role of Haptoglobin in Rats — Biochemical Aspects of Complement Activation — The Acquired Abnormalities of the Complement System in the Acute or Chronic Inflammatory Response — Acute Phase Reactant Protein Profiles in Cancer: An Approach to Deciphering their Message — Plasma Protein Profile: A Model of Data for Interpretation with Special Reference to Inflammatory Conditions — Section III. Malnutrition and the Immune Response — Protein-Calorie Malnutrition-Clinical Biochemical and Immunological — Complement, Orosomucoid, Transferrin, Retinol Binding Protein and Prealbumin in Malnutrition — Cellular and Humoral Immunity in Malnutrition — Immune Deficit in Kwashiorkor — Inhibition of Cell-Mediated Immunity by Serum Abnormalities in Protein-Calorie Malnutrition — Host Resistance in Malnutrition — Usefulness of Prealbumin as Nutritional Indicator — Section IV. Posters. — A. Acute Phase Reactants in Neonates — A Comparative Study of the Sequential and Coupled Determination of CRP and Orosomucoid during Neonatal Infections — CRP and Neonatal Sepsis — Characterization of a C2 Derived Oligopeptide with Biologic Activity — Direct Quantitation of the Complement C3 Split Product C3d in Plasma in Immunopathological Disorders — Variations of Orosomucoid Levels in New-Born Twins — Complement Levels in Infants of Diabetic Mothers over the First Month of Life — B. Protein Status in Clinical States — Protein-Status and Malnutrition, Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study of 177 Patients — Research of Relationship between Protein and Folic Acid Deficiencies — The Measurements of Plasma Proteins in Patients with nutritional Deficiency — Value of Plasma Prealbumin in the Early Recognition of Protein-Energy Malnutrition in Sahelian Children — Visceral and Muscular Proteins in Anorexia Nervosa: An Example of Severe Malnutrition in Industrialized Countries. Effects of Renutrition — C. Protein-Calorie Malnutrition and the Immune Response — Effects of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition on the Cell- Mediated Immune Response in Mice — Effects of Early Under- and Over-Nutrition on the Immune Response in Mice — D. Inflammatory Proteins in Patients with Cancer — Plasma Transferrin Level: A Preoperative Prognosis Indicator in Esophageal Cancer Patients — Usefulness of a Protein Profile as an Indicator for a Gastrostomy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer — Acute Phase Reactant Proteins and Cancer — Plasmapheresis in Cancer Patients and Acute Phase Reactant Proteins — Prognostic Value of the Macrophage Component of an Inflammatory Reaction Induced by Skin Abrasion in Cancer Patients — Nutritional Markers in Advanced Large Bowel Cancer — Effects of Acute Pha