Chagas Disease

Author(s)

• Weiss, Louis M.
• Tanowitz, Herbert B.
• Kirchhoff, Louis V.

Bibliographic Information

Chagas Disease

edited by Louis M. Weiss, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Louis V. Kirchhoff

（Advances in parasitology / edited by J. R. Baker, R. Muller and D. Rollinson, v. 75-76）

Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011

• pt. A
• pt. B

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

pt. A ISBN 9780123858634

Description

This thematic volume provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews addressing recent advances as well as an overview for the research and clinical communities on the endemic infection of Chagas disease. Lead researchers discuss epidemiology and control measures as well as various diagnosis techniques, treatments, and therapies currently being used. The text includes a history of Chagas disease and an outlook for the next century.

Table of Contents

1 Epidemiology,Control Measures & Population Biology louis Kirchhoff 2 Acute and Congenital Chagas Diseases Caryn Bern 5 Cell Based Therapy in Chagas Disease Campos de Carvalho 6 Therapy Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylase Galina Lepsheva, Fernando Villata & Micheal Waterman 7 Experimental Chemotherapy Federick bruckner 8 Vaccines for Chagas Diseases Nisha Garg 9 Population Genetics of Chagas Disease Blangero 10 Triatomine Biology Steve Klotz 13 Animal Models and Imaging Herbert Tanowitz & Linda Jelicks 14 The Genome and its Implications Santuza Teixeira 15 Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruzi John Kelly, Martin Taylor & Huan Huang 16 Nuclear Structure Sergio Scehnkman 17 Stage Differentiation Samuel Goldenberg 18 Acidocalcisome Roberto Delcampo 19 Signaling Pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi Huan Huang 20 Ecosanoids in Trypanosoma cruzi infection Anthony Ashton, Fabiana Machado & herbert tanowitz 22 Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on its Host Cells and Invasion Babara Burleigh 23 Gap Junctions and Trypanosoma cruzi David Spray 24 Vasculopathy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection Herbert Tanowitz 21 Bradykinin& Endothelin and Vasculopathy Scharfstein & marcus Rossi 25 Autoimmunity Edecio Cunha-Neto 26 Oxidative stress and Chagas disease Nisha Garg 27 Inflammation in Chagas disease Mauro Teixeira 28 Parasite Derived Neurotrophic Factors Mercio Pereira-Perrin 29 Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas Disease Herbert Tanowitz, FNU Nagayothi & Phillip Scherer 30 Epilogue:The Next 100 Years Herbert Tanowitz, Louis Weiss & Louis Kirchhoff

Volume

pt. B ISBN 9780123858955

Description

This thematic volume provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews addressing recent advances as well as an overview for the research and clinical communities on the endemic infection of Chagas disease. Lead researchers discuss epidemiology and control measures as well as various diagnosis techniques, treatments, and therapies currently being used. The text includes a history of Chagas disease and an outlook for the next century.

Table of Contents

• Bioactive lipids in Trypanosoma cruzi Infection Fabiana S. Machado1, Shankar Mukherjee, Louis M. Weiss, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Anthony W. Ashton Mechanisms of host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi Kacey L. Caradonna and Barbara A. Burleigh Gap junctions and Chagas' disease Daniel Adesse, Regina Coeli Goldenberg, Fabio S. Fortes, Jasmin, Dumitru A. Iacobas, Sanda Iacobas, Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, Maria de Narareth Meirelles, Huan Huang, Milena B. Soares, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Luciana Ribeiro Garzoni and David C. Spray The Vasculature in Chagas Disease Cibele M. Prado, Linda A. Jelicks, Louis M. Weiss, Stephen M. Factor, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Marcos A. Rossi Infection-Associated Vasculopathy in Experimental Chagas Disease: Pathogenic Roles of Endothelin and Kinin Pathways Julio Scharfstein, Daniele Andrade Autoimmunity Edecio Cunha-Neto, MD, PhD
• Priscila Camillo Teixeira, PhD
• Luciana Gabriel Nogueira, PhD
• Jorge Kalil, MD, PhD ROS signaling of inflammatory cytokines during T. cruzi infection Shivali Gupta, Monisha Dhiman, Jian-jun Wen, Nisha Jain Garg Inflammation and Chagas disease: some mechanisms and relevance. Talvani A and Teixeira MM Neurodegeneration and neuroregeneration in Chagas' disease Marina V. Chuenkova and Mercio Pereira-Perrin Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas Disease Herbert B. Tanowitz, Linda A. Jelicks, Fabiana S. Machado, Lisia Esper, Xiaohua Qi, Mahalia S. Desruisseaux, Streamson C. Chua, Philipp E. Scherer, Fnu Nagajyothi

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• NCID: BB07376242
• ISBN:
  • 9780123858634
  • 9780123858955
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20431268