Reports of influenza-like illnesses date back to the Middle Ages, and outbreaks of influenza likely afflicted humans long before that. Over the last half century, influenza virus research has led to the development of two classes of antivirals - ion channel and neuraminidase inh…
Cardiomyopathy is one of the most frequent causes of heart failure, and a leading entity of cardiac transplantation in the era of modern heart failure regimens. This volume focuses on major advances in inflammatory cardiomyopathy (DCMi) during the past 10 years. The book is divi…
Obwohl bei der Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten einige Erfolge zu verzeichnen sind, erkranken weiterhin weltweit jedes Jahr mehrere Millionen Menschen an Malaria, Hepatitis B oder Tuberkulose. Die Prävalenz der infektiösen Darmerkrankungen ist aufgrund fehlender Verfügbarkei…
This book will contain a series of solicited chapters that concern with the molecular machines required by viruses to perform various essential functions of virus life cycle. The first three chapters (Introduction, Molecular Machines and Virus Architecture) introduce the reader …
This book is concerned with the molecular machines required by viruses to perform various essential functions of virus life cycle. It introduces the best known molecular machines and the structure of viruses, and examines the stages of the viral life cycle.
Mounting evidence in the past decade indicates that innate immunity mediates functions above and beyond first-line defense against infection. It is now appreciated that innate immune mechanisms are critically involved in the development of adaptive immunity and, moreover, the re…
Mounting evidence in the past decade indicates that innate immunity mediates functions above and beyond first-line defense against infection. It is now appreciated that innate immune mechanisms are critically involved in the development of adaptive immunity and, moreover, the re…
