Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics
Cytokines (e.g., interleukins and interferons) are small signaling proteins that are essential for communication between cells. They are important regulators of the immune system, helping to control lymphocyte development and function, orchestrate inflammation, and defeat microbial and viral invaders. But they also play important roles in the nervous system, embryonic development, and diseases such as cancer.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology covers the spectrum of cytokines that are produced and their roles in normal physiology and disease. The contributors examine the numerous cytokines and their cognate receptors, the downstream signaling mechanisms (e.g., JAK-STAT pathways) that mediate the effects of cytokines on cells, and the regulators that keep them in check (e.g., long noncoding RNAs and the SOCS and IRF protein families). These molecular interactions are discussed in the context of their physiological effects; the roles of cytokines in the development and activities of the immune system are emphasized.

The authors also explore how the actions of cytokines may be modulated for treating patients with autoimmune disorders, immunodeficiency, infections, allergies, and cancer. Thus, this volume is an indispensable reference not only for cell biologists and immunologists but for all who are interested in targeting cytokine signaling for therapeutic purposes.
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Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics
Cytokines (e.g., interleukins and interferons) are small signaling proteins that are essential for communication between cells. They are important regulators of the immune system, helping to control lymphocyte development and function, orchestrate inflammation, and defeat microbial and viral invaders. But they also play important roles in the nervous system, embryonic development, and diseases such as cancer.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology covers the spectrum of cytokines that are produced and their roles in normal physiology and disease. The contributors examine the numerous cytokines and their cognate receptors, the downstream signaling mechanisms (e.g., JAK-STAT pathways) that mediate the effects of cytokines on cells, and the regulators that keep them in check (e.g., long noncoding RNAs and the SOCS and IRF protein families). These molecular interactions are discussed in the context of their physiological effects; the roles of cytokines in the development and activities of the immune system are emphasized.

The authors also explore how the actions of cytokines may be modulated for treating patients with autoimmune disorders, immunodeficiency, infections, allergies, and cancer. Thus, this volume is an indispensable reference not only for cell biologists and immunologists but for all who are interested in targeting cytokine signaling for therapeutic purposes.
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Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics

Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics

Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics

Cytokines: From Basic Mechanisms of Cellular Control to New Therapeutics

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Overview

Cytokines (e.g., interleukins and interferons) are small signaling proteins that are essential for communication between cells. They are important regulators of the immune system, helping to control lymphocyte development and function, orchestrate inflammation, and defeat microbial and viral invaders. But they also play important roles in the nervous system, embryonic development, and diseases such as cancer.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology covers the spectrum of cytokines that are produced and their roles in normal physiology and disease. The contributors examine the numerous cytokines and their cognate receptors, the downstream signaling mechanisms (e.g., JAK-STAT pathways) that mediate the effects of cytokines on cells, and the regulators that keep them in check (e.g., long noncoding RNAs and the SOCS and IRF protein families). These molecular interactions are discussed in the context of their physiological effects; the roles of cytokines in the development and activities of the immune system are emphasized.

The authors also explore how the actions of cytokines may be modulated for treating patients with autoimmune disorders, immunodeficiency, infections, allergies, and cancer. Thus, this volume is an indispensable reference not only for cell biologists and immunologists but for all who are interested in targeting cytokine signaling for therapeutic purposes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621821250
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication date: 05/31/2018
Series: Perspectives CSHL
Pages: 350
Product dimensions: 10.10(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Structure of Cytokines
J. Fernando Bazan

IL-33
Alex Kallies and Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar

GC Family Cytokines
Warren J. Leonard

Role of the ß Common (ßc) Family of Cytokines in Health and Disease
Timothy R. Hercus, Winnie L.T. Kan, Sophie E. Broughton, Denis Tvorogov, Hayley S. Ramshaw, Jarrod J. Sandow, Tracy L. Nero, Urmi Dhagat, Emma J. Thompson, Karen S. Cheung Tung Shing, Duncan R. McKenzie, Nicholas J. Wilson, Catherine M. Owczarek, Gino Vairo, Andrew D. Nash, Vinay Tergaonkar, Timothy Hughes, Paul G. Ekert, Michael S. Samuel, Claudine S. Bonder, Michele A. Grimbaldeston, Michael W. Parker, and Angel F. Lopez

IL-6 Family Cytokines
Stefan Rose-John

IL-17 Family Cytokines Show Some Skin
Leticia Monin and Sarah L. Gaffen

IL-12 and IL-23 and Their Conflicting Roles in Cancer
Juming Yan, Mark J. Smyth, and Michele W.L. Teng

Targeting IL-10 Family Cytokines for the Treatment of Human Diseases
Xiaoting Wang, Kit Wong, Wenjun Ouyang, and Sascha Ruiz

The Interferon Class of Cytokines and the IRF Transcription Factor Family
Hideo Negishi, Tadatsugu Tanigushi, and Hideyuki Yanai

The Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Family: Family Conventions and Private Idiosyncrasies
David Wallach

Responses to Cytokines and Interferons that Depend of JAKs and STATs
George R. Stark, HyeonJoo Cheon, and Yuxin Wang

Inflammasome-Dependent Cytokines at the Crossroads of Health and Autoinflammatory Disease
Hanne Van Gorp, Nina Van Opdenbosch, and Mohamed Lamkanfi

Negative Regulation of Cytokine Signaling in Immunity
Akihiko Yoshimura, Mitsuhiro Kanamori, and Shunsuke Chikuma

Cytokines and Long Noncoding RNAs
Susan Carpenter and Katherine A. Fitzgerald

T Helper Cell Differentiation and Plasticity
Jinfang Zhu

Cytokine Signaling in the Development and Homeostasis of Regulatory T Cells
Kevin H. Toomer and Thomas R. Malek

Development, Diversity, and Function of Dendritic Cells in Mouse and Human
David A. Anderson III, Kenneth M. Murphy, and Carlos G. Briseño

Cytokines, Transcription Factors, and the Initiation of T Cell Development
Hiroyuki Hosokawa and Ellen V. Rothenberg

IL-6 Immunotherapy
Toshio Tanaka, Masashi Narazaki, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto

Cytokines and Viral Infection
Rafi Ahmed

Cancer Inflammation and Cytokines
Maria Rosaria Galdiero, Gianni Marone, and Alberto Mantovani

IFNs and Cancer Immunoediting and Natural Immunity to Cancer
Robert D. Schreiber

Cytokines in Cancer Immunotherapy
Thomas A. Waldmann

Cytokines and Breg Cells and Therapeutic Potential
Thomas F. Tedder

The Future of the Cytokine Discipline
Joost J. Oppenheim

Cytokines and Innate Lymphoid Cells
Hergen Spits

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