Waubonsee Community College

Viruses, agents of change, Ann Giudici Fettner

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-273) and index

index present

non fiction

Viruses

21119105

Ann Giudici Fettner

agents of change

Foreword / by Larry Kramer -- Introduction : the crystal -- Part one : The agents -- 1. Evolutionary messengers -- DNA and RNA -- Viral genes -- Bacteria and other parasites -- The first look at the invisible domain -- What viruses are not : bacteria -- Other infectious agents -- Antibiotics -- 2. The process of infection -- What viruses are -- Encounter with the host -- Penetration and creation -- Types of infection -- Herpesviruses -- Unfamiliar habits of measles -- Escape artists -- 3. The rolling circle : discovering the viroid -- Manipulating the unseen -- Part two : The host -- 4. The internal ecosystem -- Two hundred years of innovation -- Host and parasite -- The immune system : ten million possibilities -- Elements of the immune system -- T and B cells and the language of immunity -- Antigens and antibodies -- Genetic fingerprints -- Immune against the self -- Immune "Dyslexia" -- Part three : the diseases -- Introduction -- 5. Virus and cancer -- Cancer, viruses, and oncogenes -- Oncogenes -- Papillomaviruses -- 6. Retroviruses and cancers -- The shaman -- A difference in style -- Human immunodeficiency virus -- 7. Proving the impossible -- Building blocks -- The first human cancer virus -- Human T-cell Leukemia viruses -- Hit and hide animal models -- Retroviruses as therapy -- 8. The herpes family -- Who's on first? No, who's on second? -- HTLV-III/LAV/ARV = HIV -- Somewhere between an art and a science -- The creeping -- The henles and the herpes -- The kissing disease -- 9. Influenza : a new paradigm -- An epidemiological Rosetta Stone -- Influenza -- Reservoirs of virus -- "Sleeping" sickness -- Fa-aniniva : a strange legacy -- 10. A matter of the heart -- Viruses and the heart -- Virus variants and clinical disease11. Gastrointestinal viruses -- Synergies -- Gastroenteritis -- Infectious hepatitis -- 12. Hepatitis B and the cosmic jigsaw -- Hepatitis B : Blumberg goes to the world of nature -- Polymorphism and host defenses -- The surprise finding of the cause of hepatitis B -- The difference that differences make -- HBV also determines sex -- The iron connection -- 13. The delta fraction -- Some fluky thing -- Return to the potato -- The nice little critters -- The answers that beget more questions -- 14. Facts and fancies : aids and Parvo -- Fantasies -- Parvo de Novo -- Parvo in humans -- Sickle cell -- 15. Immune against the self -- The inflammatory response -- Arthritis and other autoimmune diseases -- Whither virus? -- Autoimmunity and AIDS -- Multiple sclerosis -- 16. Animal and human -- Arboviruses -- Hemorrhagic fevers -- Encephalitis -- Borna disease virus : cause for alarm? -- Part four: Virus and the mind-brain -- 17. Virus and the brain -- The blood-brain barrier -- Disturbed or diseased? -- Mind, brain, and central nervous system -- The young brain : defective or infected? -- Island of disease -- 18. Mind viruses -- Chronic fatigue syndrome -- Cause or effect? -- Stalking the schizovirus -- Time bombs -- 19. Things fall apart -- The old brain -- Parkinson's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- 20. Beyond virus -- A "virus" from the inorganic world -- Scrapie -- Kuru in the New Guinea highlands -- The future