Fibrocytes in Health and Disease

Description

This volume provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of fibrocytes, written by the main researchers in the field. It is aimed at a broad audience of scientists and clinicians with an interest in the role of circulating fibrocytes in the etiopathogenesis of different fibrosing disorders, atherosclerosis, autoimmunity, and cancer.

Readership: Student, professional, graduate, research, clinical specialists.

Contents

• Introduction (R Bucala)
• Fibrocytes and Collagen Producing Cells of the Peripheral Blood (D Pilling)
• Regulatory Pathways of Fibrocyte Development (R Gomer)
• Immunoregulatory Pathways for Fibrocyte Differentiation (M Macka)
• Fibrocyte Differentiation Pathways (R M Strieter)
• Role of Fibrocytes in Wound Repair (E E Tredget)
• Fibrocytes in Asthma (S Mattoli)
• Fibrocytes in the Interstitial Lung Diseases (R M Strieter)
• Circulating Fibrocytes and Progression in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (M R J Kolb)
• Fibrocytes in Scleroderma Lung Disease (E Herzog)
• Fibrocytes in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (M L Entman)
• Fibrocytes in Renal Injury (T Wada)
• Fibrocytes in Hepatic Injury (D Brenner)
• Activated Fibrocytes in Rheumatoid Arthritis (E N Fish)
• Hematopoietic Origin of Skin Fibrocytes (M Abedi)
• Challenges in the Design of Therapies for Fibrosing Disorders (T L Born)
• Targeting Fibrocytes and Fibrogenic Pathways with Serum Amyloid P (M L Lupher)