614 Pages 225 Color Illustrations
by Garland Science

614 Pages 225 Color Illustrations
by Garland Science

614 Pages 225 Color Illustrations
by Garland Science

This respected graduate-level textbook provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the basic and clinical aspects of the mucosal immune system, addressing the major components of the mucosal barrier ̶ gastrointestinal, upper and lower respiratory, ocular, and genitourinary mucosal immune systems ̶ in a highly user-friendly style. The editors of and contributors to the book, all... Read more

Preface

Contributors

PART I. DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE OF MUCOSAL TISSUE

1. Overview of the mucosal immune system structure

Reinhard Pabst and Per Brandtzaeg

2. Phylogeny of the mucosal immune system

Robert D. Miller and Irene Salinas

3. Immunologic and functional differences among individual compartments of the mucosal immune system

Hiroshi Kiyono, Kohtaro Fujihashi, and Jiri Mestecky

4. Secreted effectors of the innate mucosal barrier

Michael A. McGuckin, Andre J. Ouellette, and Gary D. Wu

PART II. CELLULAR CONSTITUENTS OF MUCOSAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND THEIR FUNCTION IN MUCOSAL HOMEOSTASIS

5. Immune function of epithelial cells

Richard S. Blumberg, Wayne Lencer, Arthur Kaser, and Jerrold R. Turner

6. Intraepithelial T cells: Specialized T cells at epithelial surfaces

Hilde Cheroutre

7. T lymphocyte populations within the lamina propria

Thomas T. MacDonald and Antonio Di Sabatino

8. Innate lymphoid cells

Gerard Eberl and Nicholas Powell

9. Role of regulatory T cells in mucosal immunity

Kenya Honda and Shohei Hori

10. Mucosal B cells and their function

Jo Spencer, Edward N. Janoff, and Per Brandtzaeg

11. Secretory immunoglobulins and their transport

Charlotte S. Kaetzel, Jiri Mestecky, and Jenny M. Woof

12. Role of dendritic cells in integrating immune responses to luminal antigens

Brian L. Kelsall and Maria Rescigno

13. Intestinal macrophages in defense of the mucosa

Lesley E. Smythies and Phillip D. Smith

14. Mucosal basophils, eosinophils, and mast cells

Edda Fiebiger and Stephan C. Bischoff

15. M cells and the follicle-associated epithelium

Hiroshi Ohno, Marian Neutra, and Ifor R. Williams

16. Lymphocyte trafficking from inductive sites to effector sites

Valerie Verhasselt, William Agace, Oliver Pabst, and Andrew Stagg

17. Mucosal tolerance

Charles O. Elson and Oliver Pabst

PART III. MICROBIAL COMMENSALISM

18. Recognition of microbe-associated molecular patterns by pattern recognition receptors

Elke Cario

19. Commensal microbiota and its relationship to homeostasis and disease

Jonathan Braun, Elaine Y. Hsiao, and Nicholas Powell

PART IV. GENITOURINARY TRACT

20. The immune system of the genitourinary tract

David A. MacIntyre and Kenneth W. Beagley

21. Mucosal immune responses to microbes in genital tract

Akiko Iwasaki

PART V. NOSE, AIRWAYS, ORAL CAVITY, AND EYES

22. Nasopharyngeal and oral immune system

Hiroshi Kiyono and Kohtaro Fujihashi

23. Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue and immune-mediated respiratory diseases

Dale T. Umetsu and Bart Lambrecht

24. Ocular surface as mucosal immune site

Rachel R. Caspi and Anthony St. Leger

PART VI. INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF MUCOSAL SURFACES

25. Mucosal interactions with enteropathogenic bacteria

Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, Pamela Schnupf, Valérie Gaboriau-Routhiau, and Philippe J. Sansonetti

26. Helicobacter pylori infection

Diane Bimczok, Anne Müller, and Phillip D. Smith

27. Mucosal responses to helminth infections

William Gause and Richard Grencis

28. Viral infections

Sarah Elizabeth Blutt, Mary K. Estes, Satya Dandekar, and Phillip D. Smith

29. Infection-driven periodontal disease

Thomas E. Van Dyke and Mike Curtis

30. Mucosal vaccine strategies

Nils Lycke, Jan Holmgren, and Harry B. Greenberg

PART VII. SPECIFIC IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASES OF MUCOSAL SURFACES

31. Celiac disease

Bana Jabri and Ludvig M. Sollid

32. IgA nephropathy

Jan Novak, Bruce A. Julian, and Jiri Mestecky

33. Mucosal manifestations of immunodeficiencies

Scott Snapper, Jodie Ouahed, and Luigi D. Notarangelo

34. Inflammatory bowel disease

Giovanni Monteleone, Markus F. Neurath, and Britta Siegmund

35. Food allergies and eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases

Cathryn Nagler and Glenn T. Furuta

Index

Biography

The Society for Mucosal Immunology advances research and education related to the field of mucosal immunology.

Phillip D. Smith, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and The Mary J Bradford Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama.

Thomas T. MacDonald, PhD, FRCPath, FMedSci, is Dean for Research and Professor of Immunology, Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London.

Richard S. Blumberg, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.