Human Papillomaviruses and Cervical Cancer

Biology and Immunology
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-19-854796-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Cervical cancer is a major disease worldwide, with 500,000 new cases diagnosed every year. Through aetiological studies, an association has been established with HPV infection throughout the pathological spectrum of this disease. A timely review of HPV infection in cervical cancer, this book provides the background to the potential for immunological intervention.

Basic background is provided, ensuring the book's accessibility to all. Each chapter is integrated so that the book as a whole provides a detailed insight into the most relevant scientific issues of HPV and cervical cancer. This book will provide an interface for students, scientists and clinicians with a realistic and critical evaluation of the advances and problems in the implementation of immunologically based prophylactic and therapeutic strategies in HPV-associated disease.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stern, Peter L.

Stanley, Margaret A.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinische Mikrobiologie & Virologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Gynäkologie, Geburtshilfe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Immunologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1.: The pathology of cervical intro-epithelial neoplasia carcinoma and human papilloma-virus infection

- 2.: Molecular genetics of human papilloma viruses

- 3.: Detection of human papilloma virus infections

- 4.: Epidemiology of HPV and cervical cancer

- 5.: Mechanisms of transformation by HPV

- 6.: Virus keratinocyte interactions in the infectious cycle

- 7.: Serological immune response to HPV

- 8.: the search for cell-mediated immunity to HPV: prospects for vaccine design

- 9.: MHC expression in the natural history of cervical cancer

- 10.: Towards vaccines against papilloma virus

- 11.: Immunological aspects of cutaneous warts

- 12.: Concluding remarks