Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors

1. The interplay between the Immune system and viruses R. Wubben, C. Efstathiou and N.J., Stevenson 2. Strategies to identify and develop antiviral peptides Chit Lea Poh and Salima Lalani 3. Cell-penetrating peptides in the intracellular delivery of viral nanoparticles Alzbeta Hejmankova, Jana Vanova and Hana Spanielova 4. Immunosuppressive glucocorticoids at epithelial barriers in the regulation of anti-viral immune response V.M. Merk and T. Brunner 5. Regulation of neurotropic herpesvirus productive infection and latency-reactivation cycle by glucocorticoid receptor and stress-induced transcription factors Jeffrey B. Ostler, Laximan Sawant, Kelly Harrison and Clinton Jones 6. Cholesterol: A key player in membrane fusion that modulates the efficacy of fusion inhibitor peptides Gourab Prasad Pattnaik and Hirak Chakratborty 7. Immunoinformatics aided design of peptide-based vaccines against ebolaviruses Sahil Jain and Manoj Baranwal 8. Hormonal regulation and functional role of the 'renal' tubules in the disease vector Aedes aegypti Farwa Sajadi and Jean-Paul Paluzzi 9. Inhibition of hepatitis C virus by vitamin D Asakao Murayama and Takanobu Kato 10. Immunomodulatory effect of vitamin D on immune response to Dengue virus infection K. Alagarasu 11. Blood glucose regulation in context of infection Felix M. Wensveen, Marko Sestan, Tamara Turk Wensveen and Bojan Polic 12. Ghrelin and adipokines: An overview of their physiological role, antimicrobial activity and impact on cardiovascular conditions Luis Perpetuo, Pierre Marie Voisin, Christophe Hirtz and Rui Vitorino