6. Between Inflammation and Metabolism: The Acute- Phase Response

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Prologue 1
5. 1. The Medium Is the Message, the Message Is the Change 5
6. 2. Doing Research: Ways to Study Body Messages 18
7. 3. Evolution of Message Discovery: The Interleukin-1 Family 29
8. 4. Achieving Balance: Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory Mediators 74
9. 5. Traps and Diversions: Cytokine Decoys 127
10. 6. Between Inflammation and Metabolism: The Acute- Phase Response 156
11. 7. The Fat Revolution: Adipokines 189 Epilogue 226
12. Abbreviations 231
13. Notes 233
14. Acknowledgments 269
15. Index 271