Current Topics in Innate Immunity II

1. Pentraxins in Humoral Innate Immunity
Antonio Inforzato, Barbara Bottazzi, Cecilia Garlanda, Sonia Valentino, Alberto Mantovani

2. Galectins as Pattern Recognition Receptors: Structure, Function, and Evolution
Gerardo R. Vasta

3. The Role of Innate Immunity in Trafficking of Hematopoietic Stem Cells—An Emerging Link Between Activation of Complement Cascade and Chemotactic Gradients of Bioactive Sphingolipids
Mariusz Z. Ratajczak, ChiHwa Kim, Wan Wu, Dong Myung Shin, Ewa Bryndza, Magda Kucia, Janina Ratajczak

4. Interaction of the Microbiome with the Innate Immune Response in Chronic Wounds
Elizabeth A. Grice, Julia A. Segre

5. Pathogenic Microbes and Community Service Through Manipulation of Innate Immunity
George Hajishengallis, Jennifer L. Krauss, Shuang Liang, Megan L. McIntosh, John D. Lambris

6. A Conserved Host and Pathogen Recognition Site on Immunoglobulins: Structural and Functional Aspects
Bruce D. Wines, Halina M. Trist, William Farrugia, Chloe Ngo, John Trowsdale, Thomas Areschoug, Gunnar Lindahl, John D. Fraser, Paul A. Ramsland

7. Advances in Understanding the Structure, Function, and Mechanism of the SCIN and Efb Families of Staphylococcal Immune Evasion Proteins
Brandon L. Garcia, Kasra X. Ramyar, Daniel Ricklin, John D. Lambris, Brian V. Geisbrecht

8. Granzyme B: A New Crossroad of Complement and Apoptosis
Mario Perl, Stephanie Denk, Miriam Kalbitz, Markus Huber-Lang

9. Role of C3, C5 and Anaphylatoxin Receptors in Acute Lung Injury and in Sepsis
Markus Bosmann, Peter A. Ward

10. Complement Involvement in Neovascular Ocular Diseases
Ryoji Yanai, Aristomenis Thanos, Kip M. Connor

11. Platelets, Complement, and Contact Activation: Partners in Inflammation and Thrombosis
Osama A. Hamad, Jennie Bäck, Per H. Nilsson, Bo Nilsson, Kristina N. Ekdahl

12. Nuclear Factor-κB in Immunity and Inflammation: The Treg and Th17 Connection
Qingguo Ruan, Youhai H. Chen

13. Function of Act1 in IL-17 Family Signaling and Autoimmunity
Ling Wu, Jarod Zepp, Xiaoxia Li

14. Differential Effect of Inhibiting MD-2 and CD14 on LPS- Versus Whole E. coli Bacteria-Induced Cytokine Responses in Human Blood
D. Christiansen, O. L. Brekke, J. Stenvik, J. D. Lambris, T. Espevik, T. E. Mollnes

15. Zebrafish: Model for the Study of Inflammation and the Innate Immune Response to Infectious Diseases
Beatriz Novoa, Antonio Figueras

16. Monocyte-derived Inflammatory Dendritic Cells in the Granuloma During Mycobacterial Infection
Heidi A. Schreiber, Matyas Sandor

17. NK/DC Crosstalk in Anti-viral Response
Emanuela Marcenaro, Simona Carlomagno, Silvia Pesce, Alessandro Moretta, Simona Sivori

18. Innate-Adaptive Crosstalk: How Dendritic Cells Shape Immune Responses in the CNS
Benjamin D Clarkson, Erika Héninger, Melissa G Harris, JangEun Lee, Matyas Sandor, Zsuzsanna Fabry

19. Nutritional Immunity: Homology Modeling of Nramp Metal Import
Mathieu F. M. Cellier

Keywords: Biomedicine, Immunology, Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Virology, Pharmacology/Toxicology