The innate immune response to infection /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evolutionary emergence and interactions among elements of the innate and combinatorial responses / John J. Marchalonis, G. Kerr Whitfield, and Samuel F. Schluter -- Drosophila responses to microbial infection: an overview / Jules A. Hoffmann and Petros Ligoxygakis -- Neutrophils: the power within / Taco W. Kuijpers and Dirk Roos -- The biology of macrophages / R. Tedjo Sasmono and David A. Hume -- The regulatory role of dendritic cells in the innate immune response / F. Granucci ... [et al.] -- Roles of mast cells and basophils in innate immunity / Stephen J. Galli, Devavani Chatterjea, and Mindy Tsai -- Innate natural killer cell responses to infection / Wayne M. Yokoyama -- Urinary tract infection as a model for innate mucosal immunity / M. Samuelsson ... [et al.] --

Paneth cells in innate immunity and intestinal inflammation / Satish Keshav -- Collectins and the acute-phase response / -- Howard Clark ... [et al.] -- Complement and its receptors in infection / Admar Verschoor and Michael C. Carroll -- Coagulation and innate immunity / Charles T. Esmon -- Toll-like receptors: ligands and signaling / Kiyoshi Takeda and Shizuo Akira -- Toll-like receptors and control of adaptive immunity / Gregory M. Barton, Chandrashekhar Pasare, and Ruslan Medzhitov -- Antigen-presenting cell receptors and innate immunity: diversity, recognition, and responses / Siamon Gordon -- The function of leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors in self-tolerance, viral recognition, and regulation of adaptive responses / Marco Colonna and Winfried Barchet --

Antimicrobial peptides: effectors of innate immunity / Michael Zasloff -- Antimicrobial proteins / Tomas Ganz and Robert I. Lehrer -- Reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen metabolites as effector molecules against infectious pathogens / Christian Bogdan -- Chemokines / Bernhard Moser -- Lipids / K. Frank Austen and Yoshihide Kanaoka -- Role of innate immunity in bacterial infection / Peter Seiler, Ulrich Steinhoff, and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann.