Hormones, Regulators and Viruses
- 1st Edition, Volume 117 - August 20, 2021
- Latest edition
- Editor: Gerald Litwack
- Language: English
Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of aut… Read more
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Description
Description
Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors
Key features
Key features
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series
- Updated release includes the latest information on Hormones, Regulators, and Viruses
Readership
Readership
Undergraduates, graduates, academics, and researchers in the field of vitamins and hormones
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. The interplay between the Immune system and viruses
R. Wubben, C. Efstathiou and N.J., Stevenson
2. Strategies to identify and develop antiviral peptides
Chit Lea Poh and Salima Lalani
3. Cell-penetrating peptides in the intracellular delivery of viral nanoparticles
Alzbeta Hejmankova, Jana Vanova and Hana Spanielova
4. Immunosuppressive glucocorticoids at epithelial barriers in the regulation of anti-viral immune response
V.M. Merk and T. Brunner
5. Regulation of neurotropic herpesvirus productive infection and latency-reactivation cycle by glucocorticoid receptor and stress-induced transcription factors
Jeffrey B. Ostler, Laximan Sawant, Kelly Harrison and Clinton Jones
6. Cholesterol: A key player in membrane fusion that modulates the efficacy of fusion inhibitor peptides
Gourab Prasad Pattnaik and Hirak Chakratborty
7. Immunoinformatics aided design of peptide-based vaccines against ebolaviruses
Sahil Jain and Manoj Baranwal
8. Hormonal regulation and functional role of the ‘renal’ tubules in the disease vector Aedes aegypti
Farwa Sajadi and Jean-Paul Paluzzi
9. Inhibition of hepatitis C virus by vitamin D
Asakao Murayama and Takanobu Kato
10. Immunomodulatory effect of vitamin D on immune response to Dengue virus infection
K. Alagarasu
11. Blood glucose regulation in context of infection
Felix M. Wensveen, Marko Sestan, Tamara Turk Wensveen and Bojan Polic
12. Ghrelin and adipokines: An overview of their physiological role, antimicrobial activity and impact on cardiovascular conditions
Luis Perpetuo, Pierre Marie Voisin, Christophe Hirtz and Rui Vitorino
R. Wubben, C. Efstathiou and N.J., Stevenson
2. Strategies to identify and develop antiviral peptides
Chit Lea Poh and Salima Lalani
3. Cell-penetrating peptides in the intracellular delivery of viral nanoparticles
Alzbeta Hejmankova, Jana Vanova and Hana Spanielova
4. Immunosuppressive glucocorticoids at epithelial barriers in the regulation of anti-viral immune response
V.M. Merk and T. Brunner
5. Regulation of neurotropic herpesvirus productive infection and latency-reactivation cycle by glucocorticoid receptor and stress-induced transcription factors
Jeffrey B. Ostler, Laximan Sawant, Kelly Harrison and Clinton Jones
6. Cholesterol: A key player in membrane fusion that modulates the efficacy of fusion inhibitor peptides
Gourab Prasad Pattnaik and Hirak Chakratborty
7. Immunoinformatics aided design of peptide-based vaccines against ebolaviruses
Sahil Jain and Manoj Baranwal
8. Hormonal regulation and functional role of the ‘renal’ tubules in the disease vector Aedes aegypti
Farwa Sajadi and Jean-Paul Paluzzi
9. Inhibition of hepatitis C virus by vitamin D
Asakao Murayama and Takanobu Kato
10. Immunomodulatory effect of vitamin D on immune response to Dengue virus infection
K. Alagarasu
11. Blood glucose regulation in context of infection
Felix M. Wensveen, Marko Sestan, Tamara Turk Wensveen and Bojan Polic
12. Ghrelin and adipokines: An overview of their physiological role, antimicrobial activity and impact on cardiovascular conditions
Luis Perpetuo, Pierre Marie Voisin, Christophe Hirtz and Rui Vitorino
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 117
- Published: August 25, 2021
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
GL
Gerald Litwack
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States
Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United StatesView book on ScienceDirect
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