Reichard The Reticuloendothelial System

A Comprehensive Treatise Volume 7B Physiology
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4613-2353-2
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
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This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from those cells which constitute the RES. It may now be more fashionable in some quarters to consider these cells as part of what is called the mononuclear phagocytic system or the lymphoreticular sys tem. Nevertheless, because of historical developments and current interest in the subject by investigators from many diverse areas, it seems advantageous to present in one comprehensive treatise current information and knowledge con cerning basic aspects of the RES, such as morphology, biochemistry, phylogeny and ontogeny, physiology, and pharmacology as well as clinical areas including immunopathology, cancer, infectious diseases, allergy, and hypersensitivity. It is anticipated that by presenting information concerning these apparently het erogeneous topics under the unifying umbrella of the RES attention will be focused on the similarities as well as interactions among the cell types constitut ing the RES from the viewpoint of various disciplines. The treatise editors and their editorial board, consisting predominantly of the editors of individual vol umes, are extremely grateful for the enthusiastic cooperation and enormous task undertaken by members of the biomedical community in general and especially by members of the American as well as European and Japanese Reticuloen dothelial Societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reichard, Sherwood M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IV. Regulation and Macrophage Secretions.- 1. Endocrinelike Activities of the RES: An Overview.- 2. Regulation of Complement Synthesis in Mononuclear Phagocytes.- 3. The Synthesis of Arachidonic Acid Oxygenation Products by Macrophages.- 4. Lysosomal Hydrolases.- 5. Macrophage Neutral Proteinases: Nature, Regulation, and Role.- 6. Interferon and Macrophages.- 7. Leukocytic Endogenous Mediator in Nonspecific Host Defenses.- V. Clinical Physiology of the RES.- 8. Evaluation of RES Clearances in Man.- 9. RES Function in Experimental and Human Liver Disease.- 10. Regional Phagocytosis in Man.- 11. Inflammatory Cell Dynamics in Man.- 12. Fibronectin and Reticuloendothelial Clearance of Blood-Borne Particles: Clinical Studies in Septic Shock.- VI. Integrative Functions of the RES.- 13. Physiology and Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Macrophages.- 14. Temperature Regulation and Fever.- 15. Microcirculatory Regulation and Dysfunction: Relationship to RES Function and Resistance to Shock and Trauma.- 16. Radiation Effects on Phagocytic Cells of the RES.- 17. Role of the Reticuloendothelial System in Shock.- 18. Toxic Oxygen Products in Shock.- 19. The RES and the Turnover of Circulating Lysosomal Enzymes in Shock.