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FROM THE HALLOWED HALLS OF HERPESVIROLOGY: A Tribute to Bernard Roizman
Author(s): BLAHO JOHN A ET AL (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publication Date: 27 May 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 728 pages
- ISBN-10: 9814338982
- ISBN-13: 9789814338981
Book Description
This book contains a series of review chapters from the world’s leaders in herpesvirus research. It is designed as a tribute to the famous virologist Prof Bernard Roizman. Former trainees of Prof Roizman were invited to contribute to this volume. The chapters cover all eight of the human herpesviruses, and the topics discussed span the past six decades of this exciting research field.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
The HSV-2 Gene ICP10PK: A Future in the Therapy of Neurodegeneration? (L Aurelian); What Doesn’t Belong and Why; The Saga of Latency Associated Proteins Elaborated by Varicella Zoster Virus (M S Walters et al.); Herpesvirus Vectors for Gene Therapy or Herpesvirus DNA Replication and Packaging (N Frenkel); Chromatin Structure of the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Genome During Lytic and Latent Infection (A R Cliffe & D Knipe); Elephant Herpesviruses: The Proboscivirus Genus (J-C Zong et al.); Virus Infections and Development of Cervical Cancer (B Norrild); A Molecular Mass Gradient is the Key Parameter of the Genetic Code Organization (F Filatov); From Latent Herpes Viruses to Persistent Bornavirus (H Ludwig & L Bode); Varicella Zoster Virus Gene Expression (W Ruychan); Cytomegalovirus Control of Cell Death Pathways (L McCormick & E Mocarski; Herpesviruses as Oncolytic Agents (G Campadelli-Fiume et al.); Role of Cellular microRNAs During Human Cytomegalovirus Infection (K Dhuruvasan et al.); Burkitt’s Lymphoma and EBV The Role of LMP2A (K T Bieging & R Longnecker); Replicative Herpes Simplex Virus Vectors for Therapy of Autoimmune Central Nervous System Disease (V Hukkanen et al.); The Herpes Simplex Virus DNA Packaging Machine (J D Baines); Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation: Role of the Polypyrimidine Tract-binding Protein (PTB) and Associated Factors (M G Romanelli & E Diani); Nucleotidylation to Oncoapoptosis (J A Blaho et al.); Geographic Distribution of a Herpes Simplex Virus 1 BgKL Variant and its High Frequency in Orolabial/cutaneous Infections: The HSV-1 Variant Dispersion-replacement Model (K Yanagi); Virucidal Ability of Arginine and Its Possible Application as an Antiherpetic Agent (K Ikeda et al.); Genetic Analyses of Human Cytomegalovirus Towne Strain by Deletion Mutagenesis (E Yang et al.); Angiogenic and Oncogenic Alterations of Endothelial Cells by KSHV (V A Morris et al.); Decoding Neural Circuitry with Optogenetics: Applications for Epilepsy (P Barish
