Download or read book Immunology of Pregnancy and Cancer written by Valentin Ivanovich Govallo and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunology of Pregnancy & Cancer

Download or read book Immunobiology of Transplantation Cancer and Pregnancy written by Prasanta K. Ray and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1983 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maternal Fetal Transmission of Human Viruses and their Influence on Tumorigenesis written by György Berencsi III and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human foetus is separated from the maternal blood by the syncytiotrophoblast induced by endogeneous human retrovirus-encoded proteins. This barrier is a highly developed one, which suppors apical-basolateral transport of maternal idiotype and anti-idiotype IgG, IgG-virus complexes. The selective maternal-fetal transport of epitope- and paratope-bearing entities can influence the developping fetal immune system during pregnancy. The bidirectional maternal-fetal transfer of cells are of even more importance during pregnancy. Maternal cells with latent viruses transport viruses without impairment of fetal development. Cells with premaligant and malignant genetic transformation are also transported to the fetus. Fetal and neonatal tumours are initiated by such cells in spite of the antitumour potential of fetal organism. On the contary, the fetal cells repair maternal tissue injouries and survive in the organisms of the recipients for decades. These possess new consequences for the neonatal immunity and organ transplatation surgery.

Download or read book Immunology of Pregnancy written by Gil Mor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers in detail contemporary hypotheses and studies related to the immunology of implantation and provides a practical approach for the application of basic reproductive immunology research to pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia, pre-term labor and IUGR. Provides complete and up to date review of current knowledge of the role of the immune system during pregnancy and the interactions between the placenta and the maternal immune system.

Download or read book Reproductive Immunology written by Gil Mor and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-02-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive Immunology: Basic Concepts gives a holistic insight into the understanding of the complex interactions between the maternal immune system and the fetal/placental unit necessary for the success of pregnancy. This interaction is critical for the support of the human fetal semiallograft and the protection against infections. The book covers various topics such as B cells, macrophages, T cells, discussion on fetal signals and their impact on maternal reproductive cells such as endometrial cells, mast cells, and the role of fetal Hofbauer cells, the immune regulatory role of glucorticoids, and many other novel topics within the field of reproductive immunology. Edited and written by experts in the field, this book introduces the up-to-date knowledge of the role of the immune system during pregnancy and provides the necessary background to understand pregnancy complications associated with alterations in the functioning of the immune system. The book provides a complete discussion on the immunological aspects of pregnancy and serves as a great tool for research scientists, students, reproductive immunologists and OBGYNs. - Shows the detailed evaluation of the knowledge related to each immune cell type in the pregnant and not pregnant uterus - Evaluates each immune cell type and its function during specific reproductive events - Provides the biological background for understanding the clinical aspects that will be discussed in subsequent volumes in the series

Download or read book Regulatory T Cells and Maternal Immune Tolerance in Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer written by Lukas Steger and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cancer and Pregnancy written by Eytan R. Barnea and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer and Pregnancy covers the clinical challenges to diagnosing and treating malignancies in the pregnant patient; however, the book also shows how an understanding of the common features of both processes (rapid cell proliferation) may lead to novel anti-cancer treatment options. The book should be read by obstetricians and gynaecologists, clinical oncologists, reproduction specialists, and those involved in investigation of development, biology, toxicology, immunology, as well as cancer research.

Download or read book Fetal Antigens and Cancer written by David Evered and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Download or read book Cancer Immunoembryotherapy written by F. Columbus and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer Immunoembryotherapy A New Weapon Against Cancer

Download or read book Origin of Anti Tumor Immunity Failure in Mammals written by Ivan Bubanovic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of science has shown the majority of hypotheses to be wrong. Sharp scientific criticism and strictly controlled experimental studies reject most of the hypotheses, leaving behind only a small number of assumptions and ideas. Nevertheless, each logical assumption should have its rightful place on the scientific “battlefield” supposed to assess its validity and determine its final fate. Even when a hypothesis is wrong, it still finds its place in the entire efforts of the humankind towards attaining the scientific truth. Namely, the wrong hypotheses serve largely to illuminate the way towards the correct ones or, at least, to show which way not to follow. Correct or not, ideas and hypotheses are necessary for the progress of science. They epitomize the efforts of human thought to elucidate nature without experimental verification and in the circumstances of scant data availability. Finally, hypotheses and ideas represent a symbiotic creation of our knowledge and imagination, the two most impressive appearances in the evolution of humans.

Download or read book Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology written by James R. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Immune Systems And Human Intrauterine Development written by Itzhak Zusman and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years it has come to be generally recognized that, directly or indirectly, immunology intrudes into nearly every aspect of human reproduction. The discovered importance of the natural transfer of immunity from mother to offspring, the ontogeny of the immune response, and the recognition of pregnancy as an example of the mother-embryo interaction, are only a few components of the multifaceted field known as the immunology of reproduction. In this book, we have compiled material, obtained in our laboratories and gleaned from the modern publications illustrating ongoing research in the field of reproductive immunology on the immune system in human intrauterine development. Many new approaches have been postulated and published in recent years, enough to warrant bringing them together in one place. In this book, we focus our attention mainly on the application of humoral and cellular changes that describe the role of immune systems in human intrauterine development. A substantial area of the reproductive immunology deals with the issue of the maternal-fetal conflict and the survival of the embryo/fetus as an allograft. Although much efforts has been invested in describing different aspects of this problem, relationships between the pregnant mother and her developing fetus are not yet fully understood from an immunological point of a view. The role of the fetal immune system in its survival and in the maintenance of pregnancy have only been scanty studied, especially with respect to the secretory immune system. General skepticism has been developed regarding the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent spontaneous abortions. In our research, we have described changes in the secretory immune system of the embryo/fetus and mother as possible reasons for such abortions and we hope that these findings will yield a better understanding of the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. For many years, our laboratories have been studying the pathology of fetuses and the immune response of their lymphoid systems to experimentally induced disorders in laboratory animals (mice and rats) and under some diseases in humans, such as hemolytic disease of fetuses and newborns, sepsis of fetuses, and others. In the last decade, we have concentrated our efforts on studying the immune protection of human embryos and fetuses under non-antigen and antigen-induced diseases, studying the secretory (mucosal) immune system. The changes in the different types of immune systems in the intrauterine-developing organism in normal pregnancy, under non-infectious pathology and under infectious effects as well as under mother-fetus immune conflict are discussed in this book. The protective role of mononuclear phagocytes and the non-villous infiltrating trophoblast is analyzed. The pathological morphology of some immune and inflammatory processes, including massive apoptosis of embryonic cells, is also discussed. We hope that the problems described in this book will be of interest to people with various professional orientations, such as physicians and researchers in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive immunology and intrauterine human development, as well as medical students. For the clinician and scientists in other areas of medicine, pregnancy provides an area in which many immunological ideas can be tested. This is particularly true now that the impact of pregnancy impacts on the maternal immune system is becoming better understood.

Download or read book Immunity to Cancer written by Arnold Reif and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunity to Cancer documents the proceedings of a conference on ""Immunity to Cancer"" held at Williamsburg, Virginia, September 10-12, 1984. This was the first open conference since the New York Academy of Sciences meeting in 1975 that attempted to address the entire range of topics encompassed by tumor immunology and immunotherapy. The papers presented in this volume were invited from experts in diverse areas of tumor immunology and closely related subjects. There was an attempt to proceed logically from a consideration of the antigenicity of tumors and the use of monoclonal antibodies to examine specific antigens, to a review of regulatory and effector mechanisms. Immunological approaches to therapy were then considered systematically, both for classical modes of immunotherapy and for the newly expanded categories of biological response modifiers or biomodulators. Also included were papers on vaccination against cancer and on the analogy between the strategies for chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Download or read book Immunology of Pregnancy and its Disorders written by C.M. Stern and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to describe the nature of the materno-fetal immunobiological relationship and to suggest the direction in which the management of reproduction and its failure in man is moving. The several authors, who have written about their special fields of interest, need to be read within a framework designed to blend their contributions into a whole. This preamble provides a part of that framework, by describing the early development of the embryo, that of the placenta and its membranes and their anatomical relationship with maternal tissues: in other words, the stage upon which this materno-fetal dialogue takes place. Professor Maureen Young's 'tour de force', encapsulating the whole of fetal physiology into a single chapter, completes the background information. After Maureen Young's summary of fetal physiology, Matteo Adinolfi describes the development of the immune system in the fetus, including new information that allows more accurate speculation concerning the gestational age at which fetal immune responses of various kinds may begin. Charles Loke examines the nature of antigens which are found in the placenta, concentrating on those which occur on syncytiotrophoblast and suggesting roles for them in fetal development. Arnold Klopper covers the wide range of proteins and hormones which have been studied during pregnancy and found to vary in a potentially significant way. He has been careful to distinguish between observation and hypothesis, as far as any immunomodulating action is concerned, and his analysis is a model of scientific scepticism.

Download or read book Immunology of Pregnancy written by Udo R. Markert and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the discipline of immunology which studies a unique physiological phenomenon contradicting many of the generally established rules in the field: immunology of pregnancy. It provides a wide overview of the current research of this topic. Prominent and leading international groups contributed by reviewing the most significant findings in the field.

Download or read book The Immunology of Human Reproduction written by Isaac T. Manyonda and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding immunology is increasingly important in obstetrics and gynecology. Written primarily to meet the needs of practicing obstetricians and gynecologists, this book explores the role of immunological processes in reproduction. It presents immunologic concepts and illustrates important points with examples familiar to the clinician. The boo

Download or read book Immunobiology of Reproduction written by Joan S. Hunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several decades, many biologists have been intrigued with the "immunological paradox" of pregnancy, where maternal and fetal tissues peaceably coexist despite their genetic differences. With the development of new insights on the interactive components of the immune system as well as the generation of powerful new molecular and cellular tools, singular progress has been made in understanding immunological events that culminate in successful pregnancy. This volume contains the proceedings for the first US symposium on the "Immunobiology of Reproduction" held August 26 - 29, 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts. Papers address hemotopoietic cells in reproductive tissues; growth factors/cytokines in the female reproductive tract and placenta; growth factor networks in pregnancy loss and cancer; placental expression of major histocompatibility complex and associated genes; experimental models of MHC gene expression; and immunological aspects of human infertility.