Innate immunity from Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann / Yves Carton.
| Author/creator | Carton, Yves |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, UK : ISTE Press, Ltd ; Kidlington, Oxford, UK : Elsevier Ltd, 2019. |
| Description | xiv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Biomedical Science and Medicine 2019 |
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| Contents | Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Louis Pasteur and Silkworm Disease (1865 -- 1870) -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Current knowledge about silkworms and pebrine disease -- 1.3. A disaster announced in France for silkworm farms -- 1.4. Knowledge acquired on pebrine in the 19th Century -- 1.5. Louis Pasteur's work on pebrine -- 1.5.1. Louis Pasteur's career before 1865 -- 1.5.2. 1865: the discovery of pepper disease (pebrine) -- 1.5.3. 1866: what problems to solve? -- 1.5.4. 1867: the first results obtained on pebrine -- 1.5.5. 1868: industrial egg laying and flacherie disease -- 1.5.6. 1869: having his method approved by rearers -- 1.5.7. 1870: Villa Vicentina in Italy -- 1.6. Conclusion -- ch. 2 Ilya Metchnikov at the Pasteur Institute (1886 -- 1916) -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Ilya Metchnikov's biography -- 2.3. The discovery of phagocytosis, the basis of immunity, in Messina -- 2.4. Search for a phagocytic function in vivo -- 2.5. Metchnikov in search of a place of freedom to conduct his work -- 2.6. 1887: a meeting with Louis Pasteur -- 2.7. Metchnikov at the Pasteur Institute: affirming his conceptions -- 2.8. Metchnikov, a quality teacher-researcher: steps towards the Nobel Prize (1908) -- 2.9. Conclusion -- ch. 3 The Post-Metchnikov Era at the Pasteur Institute (1920 -- 1940) -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The researchers trained by I. Metchnikov -- 3.2.1. Alexandre Besredka, Metchnikov's official successor -- 3.2.2. Jules Bordet (1870 -- 1961) Nobel Prize 1919 -- 3.2.3. Jean Cantacuzene (1863 -- 1934), the Franco-Romanian student -- 3.2.4. Felix Mesnil (1868 -- 1938), Head of Department at the Pasteur Institute -- 3.3. Creation of a group on Insect immunity -- 3.3.1. Serguei Metalnikov (1870 -- 1946): his scientific career before 1918 -- 3.3.2. S. Metalnikov's work on Insects -- 3.3.3. S. Metalnikov's collaborators -- 3.4. Conclusion -- ch. 4 Andre Paillot against the "Phagocytic" Dogma: Humoral Immunity -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Precursors -- 4.2.1. Felix D'herelle -- 4.2.2. Rudolph W. Glaser in the United States -- 4.3. Andre Paillot (1885 -- 1944), the rebel -- 4.3.1. His biography -- 4.3.2. Andre Paillot's work on the humoral immunity of Insects -- 4.4. "Continuers" -- 4.4.1. The work of Vladimir Zernoff -- 4.4.2. The work of Andre Charles Holland in Nancy -- 4.4.3. The work of Emile Couvreur in Lyon -- 4.5. Conclusion -- ch. 5 The Crossing of the Desert for Invertebrate Immunity (1960 -- 1990) -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The humoral immunity of Insects in North America -- 5.3. Research in France on the innate immunity of Insects -- 5.3.1. The comparative pathology laboratory (Saint-Christol-les-Ales) -- 5.3.2. The biological control laboratory at the Pasteur Institute -- 5.3.3. The CNRS Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (Gif-sur-Yvette) -- 5.4. Transplantation: the "door opener" expected by Invertebrate immunologists -- 5.5. Wanting to do well, results discussed and questioned -- 5.6. Conclusion -- ch. 6 The Strasbourg Laboratory: Towards the Nobel Prize (2011) -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. The Strasbourg laboratory in the 1960s and 1980s -- 6.3. The recruitment of Jules Hoffmann -- 6.4. The work oriented towards the Insect's molting hormone: ecdysone -- 6.5. Early work on locust immunity -- 6.6. Hans Boman's laboratory, Stockholm University (Sweden) -- 6.7. Establishment of an "Insect Immunity" team in the Strasbourg laboratory -- 6.8. The entire laboratory switch to "all-immunity" -- 6.8.1. Identification of antibacterial factors (AMPs) in Drosophila -- 6.8.2. How are the genes encoding these antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) controlled and expressed? -- 6.8.3. How does the Insect perceive the aggression of the pathogen, and can it discriminate between these different aggressions? -- 6.9. The 2011 Nobel Prize Award recognizing innate immunity -- 6.10. Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021277559 |
| ISBN | 9781785483080 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1785483080 hardcover |
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