Parasitic nematodes : molecular biology, biochemistry, and immunology /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The genome of Pristionchus pacificus and the evolution of parasitism / Ralf J. Sommer & Akira Ogawa -- Life-history plasticity and responses to host defence / Mark Viney -- The complex armory of plant-parasitic nematodes / David McK. Bird and Peter M. DiGennaro -- Innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans and other nematodes / Marie-Noëlle Rosso, Nathalie Pujol and Jonathan J. Ewbank -- Nematodes and regulatory T cells / Katherine A. Smith and Rick M. Maizels -- The alternatively-activated macrophage / Dominik Rückerl, Stephen Jenkins & Judith E. Allen -- Regulation of immunity and inflammation following intestinal helminth infection / Matthew Hepworth, Richard K. Grencis and David Artis -- Influence of nematodes on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related mycobacteriae : from disease outcome to immune responses / Subash Babu and Thomas B. Nutman -- Modulation of autoimmune and allergic responses by defined nematode molecules / William Harnett ... [et al.] -- Genetics and mechanisms of drug resistance in nematodes / Roger Prichard and Anne Lespine -- Genetics of resistance to hookworm infection / Rupert J. Quinnell and Jerzy M. Behnke -- Vaccination against filarial nematodes / Sara Lustigman and Thomas R. Klei -- A vaccine against Haemonchus contortus : current status and future possibilities / David Knox -- Nematodes and human therapeutic trials / David E. Elliott ... [et al.] -- Nematode neuropeptide communication systems / Angela Mousley ... [et al.] -- The Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts of filarial nematodes / Jeremy M. Foster ... [et al.] -- The nematode cuticle-synthesis, modification and turnover / Antony P. Page -- Proteases of nematodes-from free-living to parasite / Collette Britton -- Nematode allergens / Svenja Steinfelder ... [et al.] -- The unusual lipid binding proteins of nematodes : NPAS, nemFABPs and FARs / Malcolm W. Kennedy ... [et al.].