Current Topics in Innate Immunity II

Pentraxins in humoral innate immunity. - galectins as pattern recognition receptors: structure, function, and evolution. - 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. - interaction of the microbiome with the innate immune response in chronic wounds. - keystone species and community service through manipulation of innate immunity. - a conserved host and pathogen site on immunoglobulins: structural and functional aspects. - advances in understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the scin and efb families of staphylococcal immune evasion proteins. - granzyme b: a new crossroad of complement and apoptosis. - role of c3, c5 and anaphylatoxin receptors in acute lung injury and in sepsis. - complement mediated ocular angiogenesis. - platelets, complement, and contact activation: partners in inflammation and thrombosis. - nuclear factor- b in immunity and inflammation: the treg and th17 connection. - function of act1 in il-17 family signaling and autoimmunity. - differential effect of inhibiting md-2 and cd14 on lps- versus whole e. coli bacteria-induced cytokine responses in human blood. - zebrafish: model for the study of inflammation and the innate immune response to infectious diseases. - monocyte-derived inflammatory dendritic cells in the granuloma during mycobacterial infection. - nk/dc crosstalk in anti-viral response. - innate-adaptive crosstalk: how dendritic cells shape immune responses in the cns. - nutritional immunity: homology modeling of nramp metal import.