Current Topics in Innate Immunity II, 2012 Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Series, Vol. 946

Pentraxins in humoral innate immunity.- galectins as pattern recognition receptors: structure, function, and evolution.- the role of innate immunity in trafficking of hematopoietic stem cells – an emerging link between activation of complement cascade and chemotactic gradients of bioactive sphingolipids.- interaction of the microbiome with the innate immune response in chronic wounds.- keystone species and community service through manipulation of innate immunity.- a conserved host and pathogen site on immunoglobulins: structural and functional aspects.- advances in understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the scin and efb families of staphylococcal immune evasion proteins.- granzyme b: a new crossroad of complement and apoptosis.- role of c3, c5 and anaphylatoxin receptors in acute lung injury and in sepsis.- complement mediated ocular angiogenesis.- platelets, complement, and contact activation: partners in inflammation and thrombosis.- nuclear factor-κb in immunity and inflammation: the treg and th17 connection.- function of act1 in il-17 family signaling and autoimmunity.- differential effect of inhibiting md-2 and cd14 on lps- versus whole e. coli bacteria-induced cytokine responses in human blood.- zebrafish: model for the study of inflammation and the innate immune response to infectious diseases.- monocyte-derived inflammatory dendritic cells in the granuloma during mycobacterial infection.- nk/dc crosstalk in anti-viral response.- innate-adaptive crosstalk: how dendritic cells shape immune responses in the cns.- nutritional immunity: homology modeling of nramp metal import.