Main description:

Eosinophil Ultrastructure: Atlas of Eosinophil Cell Biology and Pathology entirely focuses on eosinophils and their functional roles in inflammation, host defense, and normal homeostatic activities. The book explores the ultrastructure of human eosinophils, highlighting biological processes observed under normal, experimental, and pathological conditions.

Created to fill a void in the eosinophil literature, the book includes an extensive array of electron microscopic images that illustrate the diversity of eosinophil morphology. While the atlas is a learning and teaching tool, it is mainly a helpful resource for researchers to identify distinguishing features and structural changes that arise during studies of human eosinophils.

The book also covers the ultrastructure of mouse eosinophils under normal and activation conditions and in the context of representative diseases.

Contents:

SECTION I - THE CELL BIOLOGY OF HUMAN EOSINOPHILS 1. Introduction 2. Mature Eosinophils - General Morphology 3. Eosinophils as Secretory Cells 4. Eosinophil Activation 5. Subcellular Localization of Immune Mediators and other Proteins 6. Eosinophil Cell Death 7. Immature Eosinophils

SECTION II - EOSINOPHILS IN HUMAN DISEASES 8. Eosinophil-associated diseases

SECTION III - THE CELL BIOLOGY OF MOUSE EOSINOPHILS 9. Ultrastructure of Mouse Eosinophils