内容説明
"Analyzes the role of peptides in promoting or suppressing inflammation. Thoroughly examines the therapeutic potential of key peptides, analogs, agonists, and antagonists that influence cell injury and repair."
目次
- Part 1 Cell injury and inflammation: inflammation, cell injury and apoptosis
- proinflammatory and antiinflammatory response cytokines in the inflammatory response. Part 1 Proinflammatory peptides: proinflammatory peptides in sensory nerves of the airways
- sensory neuropeptides and bronchial hyperresponsiveness
- the tachykinin family of peptides and their receptors
- endothelins in inflammation
- endothelins in the lung
- proinflammatory peptides in relation to other inflammatory mediators
- cellular regulation of kinin receptors - potential roles in inflammation. Part 3 Antiinflammatory peptides: modulation of inflammatory effects of cytokines by the neuropeptide -MSH
- regulation of VIP gene expression
- neuroregulation of pulmonary immune responses by VIP and substance P
- role of vasoactive intestinal peptide in myocardial ischaemia - reperfusion injury
- antiinflammatory actions of VIP in the lungs and airways
- VIP regulation of neuronal proliferation and differentiation
- implications for neuronal repair
- neurotrophic action of VIP - from CNS ontogeny to therapeutic strategy. Part 4 Modulation of peptide action - therapeutic applications: long-acting VIP analogs
- catalytic anti-VIP antibodies and their relevance to the airways
- enzymatic degradation of bradykinin
- enzymatic modulation of the tachykinins and VIP in the lung
- therapeutic effects and immunomodulatory activities of natriuretic peptides.
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