Books in the Marker Proteins in Inflammation series

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I . The Inflammatory Response -- Progress in Plasma Proteins: Hallmarks of Health and Markers of Disease -- Plasma Proteins Implicated in the Inflammatory Response -- Acute Inflammatory Process -- The Inflammatory Response -- Relationships between Acute Non-Specific Inf lamination and Non-Specific Defense Mechanisms of the Host -- The Role of Thrombocytes in Inflammation -- Section II. Acute Phase Reactants -- Clinical Usefulness of C Reactive Protein Measurement -- Control Proteins of the Alternative Complement Pathway In Vivo Correlates of In Vitro Function -- Plasma Fibronectin, its Biochemical and Biological Properties and its Pathological Changes in Man -- Interaction between C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Platelets -- Interactions between CRP and Mononuclear Cells -- Clinical Usefulness of Orosomucoid Determination -- Alpha1 Acid Glycoprotein - Structure, Genetics and Biological Significance -- Alphai1-Antitrypsin Structure and Genetics -- Affinity-Immunodeletion (AID) Isoelectric Focusing on Ultra-Thin Gels and Staining with Silver Diamine Applied to the Marker Proteins of Inflammation -- A Survey of the Measurement, Distribution of Values and Phenotypes of the Haptoglobins -- Recent Findings on the Biological Role of Haptoglobin in Rats -- Biochemical Aspects of Complement Activation -- The Acquired Abnormalities of the Complement System in the Acute or Chronic Inflammatory Response -- Acute Phase Reactant Protein Profiles in Cancer: An Approach to Deciphering their Message -- Plasma Protein Profile: A Model of Data for Interpretation with Special Reference to Inflammatory Conditions -- Section III. Malnutrition and the Immune Response -- Protein-Calorie Malnutrition-Clinical Biochemical and Immunological -- Complement, Orosomucoid, Transferrin, Retinol Binding Protein and Prealbumin in Malnutrition -- Cellular and Humoral Immunity in Malnutrition -- Immune Deficit in Kwashiorkor -- Inhibition of Cell-Mediated Immunity by Serum Abnormalities in Protein-Calorie Malnutrition -- Host Resistance in Malnutrition -- Usefulness of Prealbumin as Nutritional Indicator -- Section IV. Posters. -- A. Acute Phase Reactants in Neonates -- A Comparative Study of the Sequential and Coupled Determination of CRP and Orosomucoid during Neonatal Infections -- CRP and Neonatal Sepsis -- Characterization of a C2 Derived Oligopeptide with Biologic Activity -- Direct Quantitation of the Complement C3 Split Product C3d in Plasma in Immunopathological Disorders -- Variations of Orosomucoid Levels in New-Born Twins -- Complement Levels in Infants of Diabetic Mothers over the First Month of Life -- B. Protein Status in Clinical States -- Protein-Status and Malnutrition, Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study of 177 Patients -- Research of Relationship between Protein and Folic Acid Deficiencies -- The Measurements of Plasma Proteins in Patients with nutritional Deficiency -- Value of Plasma Prealbumin in the Early Recognition of Protein-Energy Malnutrition in Sahelian Children -- Visceral and Muscular Proteins in Anorexia Nervosa: An Example of Severe Malnutrition in Industrialized Countries. Effects of Renutrition -- C. Protein-Calorie Malnutrition and the Immune Response -- Effects of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition on the Cell- Mediated Immune Response in Mice -- Effects of Early Under- and Over-Nutrition on the Immune Response in Mice -- D. Inflammatory Proteins in Patients with Cancer -- Plasma Transferrin Level: A Preoperative Prognosis Indicator in Esophageal Cancer Patients -- Usefulness of a Protein Profile as an Indicator for a Gastrostomy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer -- Acute Phase Reactant Proteins and Cancer -- Plasmapheresis in Cancer Patients and Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Prognostic Value of the Macrophage Component of an Inflammatory Reaction Induced by Skin Abrasion in Cancer Patients -- Nutritional Markers in Advanced Large Bowel Cancer -- Effects of Acute Pha

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I. The Inflammatory Response And Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Induction and Control of Acute Phase Reactant Synthesis -- Use of Immunomorphological Methods and Hemolytic Plaque Tests to Investigate the Synthesis and Secretion of Plasma Proteins by the Liver Cells During the Acute Inflammatory Reaction -- Progress in Plasma Proteins: Recent Findings on the Structure of Ceruloplasmin -- Recent Findings on the Isoelectric Points of Human C-Reactive Protein -- SAA is a more Sensitive Marker for Chronic Inflammatory Disease than C-Reactive Protein or ?1-Acid Glycoprotein -- Elastase-?1 Proteinase Inhibitor Complex (E-?1PI) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP): Early Indicators of Inflammatory Processes -- Human Kallikrein-Kininogen-Kinins (KKK) System and Acute- Phase Reactant Proteins (APRP) in Humans Undergoing Extracorporeal Circulation (ECC) -- Effect of Non Sterodial Anti-Inflammatory Drug (Niflumique Acide) on Acute Phase Protein Response -- Transcortin Activities, Cortisol and Progesterone in Pathological Sera: Inflammation, Septic Shock, Renal and Cardiac Diseases -- Measurement of Human High Molecular Weight Kininogen (HMW-K) by Laser Nephelometry -- Section II. Biological Roles Of Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Functions of Acute Phase Proteins in the Inflammatory Response -- Interaction of the Acute Phase Reactants ?1-Acid Glycoprotein, C-Reactive Protein and Serum Amyloid P-Component with Platelets and the Coagulation System -- Monoclonal Antibodies as Probes of Complement Function -- Modulation of Formation of the C3 Amplification Convertase of Human Complement by Acute Phase Proteins -- Materno-Trophoblastic Relationship in Normal Human Pregnancy and Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion -- Chemotactic Factors in the Airspaces that may Modulate Inflammation -- Section III. Protease Anti-Protease Interactions And Lung Diseases -- Human ?1-Antichymotrypsin: Purification, Properties and Reactions with some Serine Proteases -- Alpha1-Antitrypsin-Protease Interactions: The Biological Aspect -- On the Interaction Between Human Liver Cathepsin L and the two Cysteine Proteinases Inhibitors Present in Human Serum -- Modulation of Human Lymphocyte Responses by ?1 -Antitrypsin and ?2-Macroglobulin -- Mediators of Inflammation in Inflammatory Alveolitis -- Idiophathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Multiparametric Evaluation of Alveolar Lymphocyte and Macrophage Activation -- The Alpha, Proteinase Inhibitor of the Lower Respiratory Tract. Effect of Cigarette Smoking -- Collagenolytic Enzymes and Fibrosis of the Lung -- Elastolytic Activities and Proteinase Inhibitors in Sputum from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis -- Serum Derived Proteins and Antibacterial Proteins in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum -- Alveolar Fibronectin and Interstitial Lung Diseases -- Sarcoidosis: IgG, ?2 Microglobulin and Evolutivity -- ?1-Proteinase Inhibitor in Meconium from Healthy Infants and Infants with Cystic Fibrosis -- Qualitative Analysis of Proteins of Alveolar Fluid: A Study by Ultra-Thin Layer Immunoelectrophoresis and Electrofocusing -- Protease-Antiprotease Imbalance in Lung Diseases -- Section IV. Inflammation And Articular Diseases -- The Acute Phase Response in Connective Tissue Disease -- The GLA-Containing Protein of Bone -- Role of an Acute Phase Reactant, Retroviral gp70, in Murine SLE -- Study of 8 Marker Proteins of Inflammation in Synovial Fluid and Serum of Patients with Joint Diseases -- Fibronectin in Arthropathies -- Section V. Inflammatory Diseases Of Nervous System -- Multiple Sclerosis: Clues for a Pathogenesis -- Immunoglobulins in Neuropathology -- Cellular Inflammatory Response in Cerebrospinal Fluids -- Evaluation of CSF Lymphocyte Subsets Using the OKT Series of Monoclonal Antibodies (OKT3+, OKT4+, OKT8+) in Various Neurological Diseases -- Cytological Study and Protein Profile in Cerebrospinal Fluid, Before and During Treatment of Neurosyphilis -- Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology and Protein Parameters in 219