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• Heat shock proteins – Function and immunobiology  
  Ganachari Mallappa Nagaraja and Alexzander Asea

    1

• Heat shock factors as transcriptional regulators  
  Päivi Östling and Lea Sistonen

    17

• The stress response in the budding yeast  
  Tracy Nevitt and Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada

    39

• The HSP70 chaperone machine as guardian of the proteome: Implications for protein misfolding diseases  
  María A. Rujano and Harm H. Kampinga

    59

• Sexual dimorphism of the stress-induced intracellular Hsp70 response: The potential role of estrogen  
  Molly Nickerson and Monika Fleshner

    87

• Heat shock protein cell surface receptors  
  Christopher A. Pennell and Michael A. Heggem

    105

• Extracellular heat shock proteins in immune response: A guide for cross-presentation  
  Yasuaki Tamura, Toshihiko Torigoe and Noriyuki Sato

    119

• Heat shock proteins as immune mediators of cross-talk between dendritic cells and NK cells  
  Lorenzo Pilla and Giorgio Parmiani

    131

• Circulating Hsp60 and Hsp70: Speculations on their origin and function  
  A. Graham Pockley

    147

• The ins and outs of HSP70: Mechanisms of release and uptake of extracellular heat shock proteins  
  Stuart K. Calderwood, Jimmy R. Theriault, Salamatu S. Mambula and Jianlin Gong

    161

• Heat shock proteins as danger signals  
  John H.H. Williams and Claire Hunter-Lavin

    177

• Heat shock proteins and the immune response: The intersection of two pathways  
  Virginia L. Vega and Antonio De Maio

    189

• Organ failure and repressed-gene expression: The dark side of the cellular stress response  
  George A. Perdrizet and Lawrence E. Hightower

    203

• The potential role of HSP70 in predicting outcome in haematopoietic stem cell transplants – Genomic and functional studies  
  Anne M. Dickinson, Mark Jarvis, Pawel Stocki and Katarzyna Bogunia-Kubik

    251

• The exercise-associated role of heat shock proteins in peripheral blood  
  Elvira Fehrenbach

    275

• Exercise-induced increase in heat shock proteins - Implications for metabolic diseases  
  Graeme I. Lancaster and Mark A. Febbraio

    295

• Chaperones in neurodegenerative pathologies: Therapeutic prospects  
  Boris Margulis, Alexander Kinev and Irina Guzhova

    305

• Small heat shock proteins in neurodegenerative diseases  
  Serena Carra and Jacques Landry

    331

• Heat shock proteins in skeletal muscle disease and injury  
  James G. Tidball

    353

• Role of heat shock proteins in type 1 diabetes  
  Christiane Habich and Volker Burkart

    369

• Stress response proteins and acute kidney injury  
  K.J. Kelly

    385

• Heat shock proteins in environmental stresses and environment-related diseases  
  Robert M. Tanguay and Tangchun Wu

    407

• The heat shock response in Leishmania spp.  
  Joachim Clos

    421

• Hsp110 and Grp170, relatives of the HSP70 superfamily, and their application in the therapy of cancer and infectious diseases  
  Hyung L. Kim, Xiang-Yang Wang, Brahm H. Segal and John R. Subjeck

    449

• The role of heat shock proteins in the adaptive immune response against cancer  
  Catharina C. Gross

    467

• Use of heat shock protein 70 peptide-activated NK cells – From bench to bedside  
  Jürgen Radons and Gabriele Multhoff

    481

• Role of heat shock protein 70 in apoptosis mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes  
  Ralf Dressel and Sara Yasemin Demiroglu

    497

• Heat shock proteins and skin diseases  
  Constanze Jonak and Franz Trautinger

    515

• Autovaccination against tumors using a mineral/protein composite  
  Patrick Frayssinet, Dario Cuello-Carrion, Patrice Laquerriere, Alexia Grandjean-Laquerriere and Daniel Ciocca

    529

• Effects of hyperthermia on tumor antigenicity and recognition by immune effector cells  
  Valeria Milani and Rolf Issels

    543