Preface ......................................................... v
I General and Cellular Aspects
1 MicroRNAs and Cytokines ...................................... 3
Xiangde Liu
2 Cytokines and Tight Junctions ............................... 17
Christopher T. Capaldo and Asma Nusrat
3 Cytokine Networks and MAPKs—Toward New Therapeutic Targets
for Rheumatoid Arthritis .................................... 31
Zafar Rasheed, Nahid Akhtar and Tariq M. Haqqi
II Life Style Factors and Life Events
4 Exercise, Cytokines and Tissue Repair ....................... 47
Chunming Dong, Liyong Wang and Pascal J. Goldschmidt-
Clermont
5 Cytokines in Alcoholics ..................................... 63
E. González-Reimers and F. Santolaria-Fernández
6 Cytokines in the Elderly .................................... 79
Dimitrios Adamis
III Immunology and Infections
7 Cytokine Production by T Helper Subsets in Response to
Infection and Their Role in Health and Disease .............. 93
Courtney C. Kurtz, Jeffrey M. Wilson, Steven G. Black and
Peter B. Ernst
8 Cytokine Production in Viral Infection ..................... 107
Monica Tomaszewski and Frank J. Jenkins
9 Cytokines in Pulmonary Tuberculosis ........................ 123
Katharina Ronacher, Joel Fleury Djoba-Siawaya and Gerhard
Walzl
10 HIV and Cytokines: An Immunopatho-Genetic Liaison .......... 139
Luca Cassetta, Guido Poli and Massimo Alfano
11 NK Cells and Cytokines in Health and Disease ............... 155
Rizwan Romee and Jeffrey S. Miller
IV Cancer
12 Cytokines and Lung Cancer .................................. 173
Masaaki Tamura, Deryl Troyer, Dharmendra K. Maurya,
Atsushi Kawabata, and Raja Shekar Rachakatla
13 Cytokines and Breast Cancer ................................ 189
Jonna Frasor
14 Cancer Immunotherapy and Cytokines ......................... 203
Masoud H. Manjili, Maciej Kmieciak and Rose H. Manjili
15 Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Cytokines ....................... 217
Elieser Gorelik, Anna Lokshin and Vera Levina
V Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease
16 Inflammatory Cytokines and Cardiovascular Risk ............. 235
Gordon Lowe, Paul Welsh, Ann Rumley, and Naveed Sattar
17 Angiogenic Cytokine Therapy for Ischemic Heart Disease ..... 251
William Hiesinger and Y. Joseph Woo
18 Cytokines and Diabetes ..................................... 279
Kate L. Graham and Helen E. Thomas
19 Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines in Response to Glycemic
Excursions of Hypo- and Hyperglycemia ...................... 295
A.E. Kitabchi, L.N. Razavi, B.A. Larijani and E. Taheri
20 Cytokines in Metabolic Syndrome-Adipose Tissue as a Key
Contributor ................................................ 307
Marjukka Kolehmainen and Pirkka Kirjavainen
VI Organs and Tissue Systems
21 Cytokines and Alzheimer's Disease .......................... 329
Lucia Velluto, Carla Iarlori, Domenico Gambi and Marcella
Reale
22 Parkinson's Disease and Cytokines .......................... 343
Carla Iarlori, Domenico Gambi and Marcella Reale
23 Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytokines and their Change in Herpes
Simplex Virus Encephalitis ................................. 357
Satoshi Kamei
24 Cytokines in Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance ............ 369
Adam Whaley-Connell, Vincent G. DeMarco and James R.
Sowers
25 Cytokines and Bone ......................................... 385
Patrizia D'Amelio
26 Cytokines in Rheumatoid Arthritis .......................... 403
Ivan V. Shirinsky and Valery S. Shirinsky
Index ......................................................... 419
About the Editors ............................................. 425
Color Plate Section ........................................... 427
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