Leukocyte Integrins in the Immune System and Malignant Disease

Most lymphocytes recirculate throughout the body, migrating from blood through organized lymphoid tissues such as lymph nodes (LN) and Peyer's patches (PP), then to lymph and back to blood (GOWANS and KNIGHT 1964). Smaller numbers of lymphocytes migrate f

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Editors R.W. Compans, Atlanta/Georgia M. Cooper, Birmingham/Alabama J.M. Hogle, Boston/Massachusetts· Y. Ito, Kyoto H. Koprowski, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania· F. Me1chers, Basel M. Old stone, La Jolla/California· S. Olsnes, Oslo M. Potter, Bethesda/Maryland· H. Saedler, Cologne P.K. Vogt, La Jolla/California· H. Wagner, Munich

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Leukocyte Integrins in the Immune System and Malignant Disease Edited by B. Holzmann and H. Wagner

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Professor Bernhard HOLZMANN, M.D. Professor Hermann WAGNER, M.D., Ph.D. Technical University of Munich Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene Trogerstr. 9 0-81675 Munich Germany

Cover illustration: Cell adhesion receptors of the integrin family are important elements of cellular communication. The capacity of integrins to bind ligand is rapidly regulated by cellular signaling events that alter integrin conformation and clustering. Upon recognition and binding of cognate ligands integrins may also function as signal transduction devices that affect cellular responses to environmental signals. Cover design: design & production GmbH, Heidelberg

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List of Contents

C. MORIMOTO, S. IWATA, and K. TACHIBANA VLA-4-Mediated Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. WAGNER and W. MOLLER Functions of ot4-~7-Integrins in Hematopoiesis, Lymphocyte Trafficking and Organ Development. . . . . ..

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W. KOLANUS and L. ZEITLMANN Regulation of Integrin Function by Inside-Out Signaling Mechan