TY - BOOK AU - Ofek,Itzhak AU - Hasty,David L. AU - Doyle,Ronald J. AU - Ofek,Itzhak TI - Bacterial adhesion to animal cells and tissues SN - 1555812635 (hardcover) PY - 2003/// CY - Washington, D. C. PB - ASM Press KW - Bacterial adhesion KW - Adhesins, Bacterial N1 - Updates: Bacterial adhesion to cells and tissues / Itzhak Ofek and Ronald J. Doyle, 1994; Basic concepts in bacterial adhesion -- Methodological approaches to analysis of adhesins and adhesion -- Target tissues for bacterial adhesion -- Adhesins as bacterial cell surface structures: general concepts of structure, biogenesis, and regulation -- Emerging concepts in bacterial adhesion and its consequences -- Diversification of receptor specificity and its biological consequences -- Entry of bacteria into nonphagocytic cells -- Postadhesion events induced in nonphagocytic cells -- Adhesion-dependent upregulation of bacterial genes -- Role of adhesion in biofilm formation -- Antiadhesion therapy -- Adhesins, receptors and target substrata involved in the adhesion of pathogenic bacteria to host cells and tissues UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003005915.html ER -