Main description:

Immunotherapeutics, Volume 129 in the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Vaccines for the prophylaxis and treatment of HPV, Lung-targeted RNA-based therapeutics, Clostridium difficile: Current overview and future perspectives, Antivenoms for treatment of snake bites, Natural killer cell-based strategies for immunotherapy of cancer, Immunological insights of selectins in human disease mechanism, Current update, challenges, and future aspects of immunotherapeutics in non-small cell lung cancer, In silico interaction analysis of NEMO binding domain peptide on the NFkB protein, and much more.

Contents:

1. In silico tools and databases for designing cancer immunotherapy
Anjali Dhall, Shipra Jain, Neelam Sharma, Leimarembi Devi Naorem, Dilraj Kaur, Sumeet Patiyal, and Gajendra P.S. Raghava
2. Immunotherapeutic approaches for HPV-caused cervical cancer
Seyed Amirreza Fatemi, Nadia Seifi, Shiva Rasekh, Sogand Amiri, Seyed Mohammad Iman Moezzi, Ashkan Bagheri, Shirin Fathi, and Manica Negahdaripour
3. Natural killer cell-based strategies for immunotherapy of cancer
Ondrej Vanek, Barbora Kalouskova, Celeste Abreu, Shiva Nejadebrahim and Ondrej Skorepa
4. Noncoding RNAs as novel immunotherapeutic tools against cancer
Maninder Kaur, Bhavneet Kaur, Monidipa Konar, and Sadhna Sharma
5. Immunological insights of selectins in human disease mechanism
Chandrabose Selvaraj, Rajaram Abhirami, Rajendran Vijayakumar, Faiz Abdulaziz Alfaiz, and Sanjeev Kumar Singh
6. CoVaccine HT (TM) adjuvant is superior to Freund's in eliciting ovine polyclonal antibodies against human tumor necrosis factor-alpha
Owen R. Griffiths, John Landon, R. Keith Morris, Philip E. James, and Rachel A. Adams
7. Clostridioides difficile: Current overview and future perspectives
Joanna Giles and April Roberts
8. A computational model revealing the immune-related hub genes and key pathways involved in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Ambritha Balasundaram, S. Udhaya Kumar, and C. George Priya Doss
9. Understanding the activating mechanism of the immune system against COVID-19 by Traditional Indian Medicine: Network pharmacology approach
D. Thirumal Kumar, M.S. Shree Devi, S. Udhaya Kumar, Annie Sherlin, Aishwarya Mathew, M. Lakshmipriya, P. Sathiyarajeswaran, R. Gnanasambandan, R. Siva, R. Magesh, and C. George Priya Doss
10. Immunotherapeutic interventions in Parkinson's disease: Focus on a-Synuclein
Upasana Ganguly, Sukhpal Singh, Sasanka Chakrabarti, Adesh K. Saini, and Reena V. Saini
11. Antivenom: An immunotherapy for the treatment of snakebite envenoming in sub-Saharan Africa
Mender M. Mender, Fiona Bolton, Colin Berry, and Mark Young