Ciba Foundation Symposium 112 - Microbial Toxins and Diarrhoeal Disease

Copyright © 1985 Ciba Foundation

Ciba Foundation Symposium 112 - Microbial Toxins and Diarrhoeal Disease

Editor(s): David Evered, Julie Whelan

Published Online: 30 MAY 2008

Print ISBN: 9780272797860

Online ISBN: 9780470720936

DOI: 10.1002/9780470720936

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Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–ix)

    2. Chapter 1

      Microbial Toxins and Diarrhoeal Diseases: Introduction and Overview (pages 1–13)

      R. L. Guerrant

    3. Chapter 2

      Regulation of Water and Ion Movement in Intestine (pages 14–33)

      Don W. Powell, Helen M. Berschneider, Larry D. Lawson and Holger Martenst

    4. Chapter 3

      Role of the Mucosal Barrier in Toxin/Microbial Attachment to the Gastrointestinal Tract (pages 34–56)

      W. Allan Walker

    5. Chapter 4

      Toxins which Activate Adenylate Cyclase (pages 57–73)

      D. Michael Gill and Marilyn Woolkalis

    6. Chapter 5

      Toxins which Activate Guanylate Cyclase: Heat-Stable Enterotoxins (pages 74–93)

      Mrinalini C. Rao

    7. Chapter 6

      STB Enterotoxin of Escherichia coli: Cyclic Nucleotide-Independent Secretion (pages 94–115)

      Cynthia S. Weikel and Richard L. Guerrant

    8. Chapter 7

      Mechanisms by which Cyclic Nucleotides and Other Intracellular Mediators Regulate Secretion (pages 116–138)

      Hugo R. De Jonge and Suzanne M. Lohmannt

    9. Chapter 8

      Secretory Hormones of Entamoeba histolytica (pages 139–154)

      Katherine McGowan, Victoria Guerina, Joan Wicks and Mark Donowitz

    10. Chapter 9

      The Pharmacological Modification of Secretory Responses (pages 155–174)

      Richard J. Miller, David R. Brown, Eugene B. Chang and David D. Friel

    11. Chapter 10

      Salmonellosis: In Retrospect and Prospect (pages 177–192)

      J. Stephen, T. S. Wallis, W. G. Starkey, D. C. A Candy, M. P. Osborne and S. Haddon

    12. Chapter 11

      Shigella Toxin and the Pathogenesis of Shigellosis (pages 193–214)

      Gerald T. Keusch, Arthur Donohue-Rolfe and Mary Jacewicz

    13. Chapter 12

      Staphylococcus aureus Delta Toxin as an Entero Toxin (pages 215–229)

      Frank A. Kapral

    14. Chapter 13

      Clostridial Toxins Active Locally in the Gastrointestinal Tract (pages 230–241)

      Tracy Wilkins, Howard Krivan, Bradley Stiles, Robert Carman and David Lyerly

    15. Chapter 14

      Vaccine Development for the Control of Cholera and Related Toxin-Induced Diarrhoeal Diseases (pages 242–270)

      Jan Holmgren and Ann-Mari Svennerholm

    16. Chapter 15

      Chairman's Summing-Up (pages 271–274)

      Richard L. Guerrant

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      Index of Contributors (page 275)

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      Subject Index (pages 277–286)

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