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Autophagy in Infection and Immunity (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (335)) by Zhifen Yang, Daniel J. Klionsky (auth.), Beth Levine, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Vojo Deretic (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Autophagy is a fundamental biological process that enables cells to autodigest their own cytosol during starvation and other forms of stress. It has a growing spectrum of acknowledged roles in immunity, aging, development, neurodegeneration, and cancer biology. An immunological role of autophagy was first recognized with the discovery of autophagy’s ability to sanitize the cellular interior by killing intracellular microbes. Since then, the repertoire of autophagy’s roles in immunity has been vastly expanded to include a diverse but interconnected portfolio of regulatory and effector functions. Autophagy is an effector of Th1/Th2 polarization; it fuels MHC II presentation of cytosolic (self and microbial) antigens; it shapes central tolerance; it affects B and T cell homeostasis; it acts both as an effector and a regulator of Toll-like receptor and other innate immunity receptor signaling; and it may help ward off chronic inflammatory disease in humans. With such a multitude of innate and adaptive immunity functions, the study of autophagy in immunity is one of the most rapidly growing fields of contemporary immunological research. This book introduces the reader to the fundamental

Who reads Autophagy in Infection and Immunity (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (335))?

Author

Zhifen Yang, Daniel J. Klionsky (auth.), Beth Levine, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Vojo Deretic (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612509223

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Biology