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Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans

All living organisms are in a constant battle against their environment. Since uncontained microorganisms would simply overgrow all higher animals, the evolution of multicellular organisms required adequate and efficient defense mechanisms to protect their own integrity and to ensure their own survi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Heine, Holger (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, 21
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolution of Resistance Genes in Plants
  • The Path Less Explored: Innate Immune Reactions in Cnidarians
  • Bug Versus Bug: Humoral Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster
  • Cellular Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster
  • Immune Reactions in the Vertebrates' Closest Relatives, the Urochordates
  • Innate Immune System of the Zebrafish, Danio rerio
  • Toll-Like Receptors in the Mammalian Innate Immune System
  • NLRs: a Cytosolic Armory of Microbial Sensors Linked to Human Diseases
  • Antimicrobial Peptides as First-Line Effector Molecules of the Human Innate Immune System
  • The Complement System in Innate Immunity.