Heat Shock Proteins in Veterinary Medicine and Sciences: Published under the Sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association ... for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE)

This books provides up-to-date reviews on current advances of the role of HSP in veterinary medicine and research. Key basic and clinical research laboratories from major universities, veterinary hospitals and pharmaceutical companies around the world have contributed chapters that review present research activity and importantly project this field into the future. For easy readability, the book is sub divided into sections on HSP in the following aspects of Veterinary Medicine, including, I - Domestic Animals, II - Poultry, III - Aquatic and IV - Parasites. The book is a must read for heat shock protein researchers in general and specifically those involved in clinical and research in veterinary medicine. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Thermotolerance in Domestic Ruminants: A HSP70 Perspective (Iqbal Hyder, Manjari Pasumarti, Poonooru Ravikanth Reddy, Chigurupati Srinivasa Prasad, Kamisetty Aswani Kumar, Veerasamy Sejian)....Pages 3-35 Expression Dynamics of Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) in Livestock under Thermal Stress (Satyaveer Singh Dangi, Jaya Bharati, Hari Abdul Samad, Sanjeev Kumar Bhure, Gyanendra Singh, Vijai Prakash Maurya et al.)....Pages 37-79 Heat Shock Protein Expression and Implications in Spontaneous Animal Tumors: Veterinary and Comparative Aspects (Mariarita Romanucci, Leonardo Della Salda)....Pages 81-101 Heat Shock Protein as an Adjuvant in Veterinary Vaccines (Sohini Dey, Madhan Mohan Chellappa, Saravanan Ramakrishnan, Hemanta Kumar Maity, Kalpana Yadav, Dinesh C. Pathak et al.)....Pages 103-120 Front Matter ....Pages 121-121 Antioxidant Systems and Vitagenes in Poultry Biology: Heat Shock Proteins (Peter F. Surai, Ivan I. Kochish)....Pages 123-177 Heat Shock Protein and Thermal Stress in Chicken (Shanmugam Murugesan, Rajkumar Ullengala, Vinoth Amirthalingam)....Pages 179-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Heat Shock Proteins in Fish Health and Diseases: A Pharmacological Perspective (Kartik Baruah, Parisa Norouzitallab, Peter Bossier)....Pages 197-213 Physiological Role of Heat Shock Proteins, Molecular Function and Stress Removal in Fishes (Shib Sankar Sen, Sib Sankr Giri)....Pages 215-246 The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Response to Extracellular Stress in Aquatic Organisms (Li Lian Wong, Dinh Thinh Do)....Pages 247-274 Heat Shock Proteins in Aquaculture Disease Immunology and Stress Response of Crustaceans (Peng Li)....Pages 275-320 Front Matter ....Pages 321-321 Heat Shock Proteins in Parasitic Flatworms (Yadong Zheng, Xiaola Guo, Jin’en Wu, Jing Yang, Xiaoliang Jin)....Pages 323-338 Heat Shock Proteins: Role, Functions and Structure in Parasitic Helminths (Hui-Yu Chen, Yi-Sheng Cheng, Hsiu-Hui Shih)....Pages 339-348 Heat Shock Proteins and Blood-Feeding in Arthropods (Marcos H. Pereira, Rafaela M. M. Paim, Chloé Lahondère, Claudio R. Lazzari)....Pages 349-359 Heat Shock Proteins in Leptospirosis (Arada Vinaiphat, Visith Thongboonkerd)....Pages 361-374 Heat Shock Proteins in Vector-pathogen Interactions: The Anaplasma phagocytophilum Model (Pedro J. Espinosa, Pilar Alberdi, Margarita Villar, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, José de la Fuente)....Pages 375-398 The book Heat Shock Proteins in Veterinary Medicine and Sciences provides the most comprehensive review on contemporary knowledge on the role of heat shock proteins in veterinary medicine and sciences. Using an integrative approach to understanding heat shock protein physiology, the contributors provide a synopsis of novel mechanisms by which HSP are involved in the regulation of normal physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Key basic and clinical research laboratories from major universities and veterinary hospitals around the world contribute chapters that review present research activity and importantly project the field into the future. The book is a must read for veterinary doctors, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Physiology, Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Microbiology and Pathology