5080

edited by Nasimul Ahsan

Springer Science+Business Media Eurekah.com/Landes Bioscience New York, N.Y. Georgetown, Tex.

c2006

xxiv, 360 p. ill. (some col.) 26 cm

Advances in experimental medicine and biology v. 577

Includes bibliographical references and index , Polyomaviruses and human diseases / Nasimul Ahsan and Keerti V. Shah -- Discovery and epidemiology of the human polyomaviruses BK virus (BKV) and JC virus (JCV) / Wendy A. Knowles -- Phylogenomics and molecular evolution of polyomaviruses / Keith A. Crandall ... [et al.] -- Virus receptors and tropism / Aarthi Ashok and Walter J. Atwood -- Serological cross reactivity between polyomavirus capsids / Raphael P. Viscidi and Barbara Clayman -- Molecular genetics of the BK virus / Christopher L. Cubitt -- Serological diagnosis of human polyomavirus infection / Annika Lundstig and Joakim Dillner -- Human polyomavirus JC and BK persistent infection / Kristina Doerries -- Immunity and autoimmunity induced by polyomaviruses / Ole Petter Rekvig, Signy Bendiksen and Ugo Moens -- The pathobiology of polyomavirus virus infection in man / Parmjeet Randhawa, Abhay Vats and Ron Shapiro -- Polymoavirus-associated nephropathy in renal transplantation / Hans H. Hirsch ... [et al.] -- BK virus and immunosuppressive agents / Irfan Agha and Daniel C. Brennan -- BK virus infection after non-renal transplantation / Martha Pavlakis, Abdolreza Haririan and David K. Klassen -- Latent and productive polyomavirus infections of renal allografts / Volker Nickeleit, Harsharan K. Singh and Michael J. Mihatsch -- Urine cytology findings of polyomavirus infections / Harsharan K. Singh ... [et al.] -- Diagnosis and treatment of BK virus-associated transplant nephropathy / Abhay Vats, Parmjeet S. Randhawa and Ron Shapiro -- Pharmacotherapeutic options for the management of human polyomaviruses / Julie Roskopf ... [et al.] -- Leflunomide in solid organ transplantation and polyoma virus infection / Michelle A. Josephson ... [et al.] -- JC virus can infect human immune and nervous system progenitor cells / Jean Hou, Pankaj Seth and Eugene O. Major -- The polyomavirus, JCV, and its involvement in human disease / Kamel Khalili, Jennifer Gordon, and Martyn K. White -- Transforming activities of JC virus early proteins / Richard J. Frisque, Catherine Hofstetter and Shiva K. Tyagarajan -- Polyomavirus in human cancer development / Winston Lee and Erik Langhoff -- BK virus, JC virus, and simian virus 40 infection in humans, and association with human tumors / Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano ... [et al.] -- Epidemiologic studies of polyomaviruses and cancer / Dana E.M. Rollison.

AU Ahsan, Nasimul

616.91