Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Table of Contents - p. iii 3. Copyright - p. iii 4. Former Editors - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Preface - p. xiii 7. Chapter One: The interplay between the immune system and viruses - p. 1 8. Chapter Two: Strategies to identify and develop antiviral peptides - p. 33 9. Chapter Three: Cell-penetrating peptides in the intracellular delivery of viral nanoparticles - p. 53 10. Chapter Four: Immunosuppressive glucocorticoids at epithelial barriers in the regulation of anti-viral immune response - p. 77 11. Chapter Five: Regulation of neurotropic herpesvirus productive infection and latency-reactivation cycle by glucocorticoid receptor and stress-induced transcription factors - p. 101 12. Chapter Six: Cholesterol: A key player in membrane fusion that modulates the efficacy of fusion inhibitor peptides - p. 133 13. Chapter Seven: Immunoinformatics aided design of peptide-based vaccines against ebolaviruses - p. 157 14. Chapter Eight: Hormonal regulation and functional role of the “renal” tubules in the disease vector, Aedes aegypti - p. 189 15. Chapter Nine: Inhibition of hepatitis C virus by vitamin D - p. 227 16. Chapter Ten: Immunomodulatory effect of vitamin D on immune response to dengue virus infection - p. 239 17. Chapter Eleven: Blood glucose regulation in context of infection - p. 253
Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Table of Contents - p. iii 3. Copyright - p. iii 4. Former Editors - p. iii 5. Contributors - p. iii 6. Preface - p. xiii 7. Chapter One: The interplay between the immune system and viruses - p. 1 8. Chapter Two: Strategies to identify and develop antiviral peptides - p. 33 9. Chapter Three: Cell-penetrating peptides in the intracellular delivery of viral nanoparticles - p. 53 10. Chapter Four: Immunosuppressive glucocorticoids at epithelial barriers in the regulation of anti-viral immune response - p. 77 11. Chapter Five: Regulation of neurotropic herpesvirus productive infection and latency-reactivation cycle by glucocorticoid receptor and stress-induced transcription factors - p. 101 12. Chapter Six: Cholesterol: A key player in membrane fusion that modulates the efficacy of fusion inhibitor peptides - p. 133 13. Chapter Seven: Immunoinformatics aided design of peptide-based vaccines against ebolaviruses - p. 157 14. Chapter Eight: Hormonal regulation and functional role of the “renal” tubules in the disease vector, Aedes aegypti - p. 189 15. Chapter Nine: Inhibition of hepatitis C virus by vitamin D - p. 227 16. Chapter Ten: Immunomodulatory effect of vitamin D on immune response to dengue virus infection - p. 239 17. Chapter Eleven: Blood glucose regulation in context of infection - p. 253