Leucocyte Adhesion

Edited by

Klaus Ley, University of Virginia Health System, Cardiovascular Research Center, Charlottesville, USA

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Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

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Hardbound, 300 Pages

Published: November 2009

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-374909-3

Contents

1. Membrane composition and properties
1. Lipid rafts (open)
2. Membrane tethers (R Waugh, Rochester)
3. Microvilli (JY Shao, Wash U)
4. Whole cell deformation (D Khismatullin, Tulane)
2. Adhesion molecules
1. Integrin activation (M. Shimaoka, Harvard)
2. Cytoskeletal anchoring (Fred Pavalko, Iowa)
3. No tile yet (Alon, Weizman)
4. Catch bonds (Cheng Zhu, Georgia Tech and Roger McEver, OMRF)
5. Modeling adhesion (Pospieszalska/Ley, LIAI)
6. Factors limiting the onset of bond formation at cell interfaces (R Waugh, Rochester)
3. Active role of endothelial cells
1. Adhesive platforms (O. Barreiro, Madrid)
2. Migratory cups, podosomes (Chris Carman, Beth Israel)
3. PECAM recycling (WA Muller, Northwestern)
4. Methods
1. FRET (Minsoo Kim, Rochester)
2. Flow chambers (Simon SI at UC Davis)

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