Cytokine Response Against Major Human Viral Infections provides coverage on the role and mode of possible impact of cytokines on disease pathogenesis and host immune response. Cytokines, as a part of innate immunity, favor the development of antiviral and TH 1-type immune responses. Cytokines also affect the adaptive immune response and disease manifestation. This book gives a comprehensive introduction to clinical manifestations of viral and infectious diseases, explains the role cytokines in DNA virus infections, RNA virus infections, and in reverse transcribing virus infections, and gives insights into recent advances and strategies in diagnostic tools and therapeutic and prophylactic measures.
This book is a milestone to understanding the immunological response against various viral infections for both researchers in immunology and virology, as well as for those in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
Author Biography:
Mukesh Samant is an Assistant Professor at Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Kumaun University, SSJ campus, Almora, (Uttarakhand), India. He did his Ph.D. from Division of Parasitology, Central Drug research Institute, Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh) India, He has more than four year of Post-doctoral experience from Laval University, Quebec, Canada with more than 16 years of research experience in the field of Leishmania biology, microbiology, immunology, molecular parasitology, bioremediation, and rhizosphere microbiology. He has published more than 40 research papers in highly reputed international journals. He has reviewed publications for various international journals like Scientific reports, Vaccine, Parasitology, Journal of Immunology, Frontiers in Microbiology etc. Dr. Prashant Khare is Director (R&D) at Center for Advanced Biotechnology Research, Absolute Foods, Gurugram (Haryana), India. Previously he was Ramalingaswami Fellow and Scientist D at Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), India. He completed his PhD from Division of Parasitology, Central Drug research Institute, Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh) India. He has five years of post-doctoral experience from Baylor Institute for Immunology Research and UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA with more than 15 years of research experience in the field of infectious biology, immunology, vaccine and drug development and inflammation and associated cancer. He has published more than 30 research papers in highly reputed international journals such as Nature Immunology and Nature communication. He has reviewed publications for various international journals and served as editorial role in well reputed journals. Presently he is working to identify novel drug molecules against infectious cancer.
