Dendritic Cell Interactions with Bacteria

Maria Rescigno is the Director of the Research Unit at the European Institute of Oncology, Italy. The research focuses on the study of dendritic cell biology and immunotherapy.

• Preface; Part I. Dendritic Cells and Their Role in Immunity: 1. Sub-populations and differentiation of mouse dendritic cells Carlos Ardavín; 2. Toll-like receptor signalling Osamu Takeuchia and Shizuo Akira; 3. MHC class I & II pathways for presentation and cross presentation of bacterial antigens Laurence Bougnères-Vermont and Pierre Guermonprez; Part II. Dendritic Cells and Innate Immune Responses to Bacteria: 4. Dendritic cell activation and uptake of bacteria in vivo Maria Rescigno; 5. Role of dendritic cells in the innate response to bacteria Natalya V. Serbina and Eric G. Pamer; 6. Interactions between natural killer and dendritic cells during bacterial infections Guido Ferlazzo; Part III. Dendritic Cells and Adaptive Immune Response to Bacteria: 7. Peculiar ability of dendritic cells to process and present antigens from vacuolar pathogens: a lesson from Legionella Sunny Shin, Catarina Nogueira and Craig R. Roy; 8. Dendritic cells, macrophages and cross-presentation of bacterial antigens: a lesson from Salmonella Mary Jo Wick; Part IV. Dendritic Cells and Immune Evasion of Bacteria in vivo: 9. Pathogen-recognition receptors as targets for pathogens to modulate immune function of antigen presenting cells Anneke Engering, Sandra J. van Vliet, Estella A. Koppel, Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek and Yvette van Kooyk; 10. Suppression of immune responses by bacteria and their products through dendritic cell modulation and regulatory T cell induction Miriam T. Brady, Peter McGuirk and Kingston H. G. Mills; 11. Dendritic cells in the gut and their possible role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases Christopher Becker.