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Table of Contents:
Chapter I- New aspects of chitin chemistry and enzymology;pp. 1-25
(Riccardo Muzzarelli, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy)
Chapter II- Role of Chitinase in natur;pp. 27-44
(Neetu Dahiya, Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
Chapter III - Chitin, Chitinases and Chitinase-Like Proteins: A Hypothesis on Ancestral Relationships;pp. 45-59
(Andrea Giansanti, Fabio Mecozzi and Salvatore Musumeci, Physics Department, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy; Department of Neurosciences and Mother to Child Sciences, University of Sassari and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Li Punti (SS), Italy.)
Chapter IV - Chitinase in fungal and bacterial sepsis;pp. 61-75 (Helen Michelakakis and Ioannis Labadaridis, Dept. of Enzymology and Cellular Function Institute of Child Health, Athens, Greece)
Chapter V - The origin and genetics of human chitinases;pp. 77-99 (Rolf Boot, D. Speijer, A.P. Bussink and J.M.F.G. Aerts,
Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter VI - Polymorphism of chitinases in human populations;pp. 101-112
(Andrea Angius, Institute of Population Genetics National Research Council, (CNR), Alghero, Italy)
Chaptyer VII - The Gaucher cell and chitotriosidase, the phagocyte chitinase;pp. 113-128
(J.M. Aerts & R.G. Boot, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Chapter VIII - Chitinase activity in atherosclerosis disease;pp. 129-142
(Ana Cenarro and Fernando Civeira, Laboratorio de Investigación Molecular Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain)
Chapter IX – Chitotriosidase activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis and juvenile sarcoidosis;pp. 143-147
(Juergen Brunner, Pediatric Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
Chapter X - Chitinase in Neurological Diseases;pp. 149-159
(Stefano Sotgiu, Department of Neurosciences and Mother and Child Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy.)
Chapter XI – Chitin in Alzheimer disease;pp. 161-182
(Luis F. Gonzalez Cuyar, Rudy J. Castellani, Department of Pathology, Division of Neuropathology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland USA)
Chapter XII - Chitin and Chitinase in anticancer research;pp. 183-202 (Xing Q. Pan, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, USA)
Chapter XIII - YKL-40 in inflammation, tissue remodeling and cancer;pp. 203-235
(Julia Johansen Department of Rheumatology, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Chapter XIV - Plasma Chitotriosidase activity in patients with beta-thalassemia;pp. 237-245
(Rita Barone Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Department of Pediatrics, University of Catania and Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, National Research Council (CNR)- Catania-Italy)
Chapter XV - Chitotriosidase in the Plasmodium, Anopheles and human interaction;pp. 247-261
(Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Superior Health Institute, Rome; Department of Neurosciences and Mother to Child Sciences, University of Sassari and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Li Punti (SS), Italy.)
Chapter XVI - Role of AMCase in the allergic and non allergic ocular pathologies;pp. 263-279
(Salvatore Musumeci and Maria Musumeci Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Superior Health Institute, Rome; Department of Neurosciences and Mother to Child Sciences, University of Sassari and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Li Punti (SS), Italy)
Chapter XVII - Chitinase in the immune response;pp. 281-293
(Maria Musumeci and Salvatore Musumeci, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Superior Health Institute, Rome; Department of Neurosciences and Mother to Child Sciences, University of Sassari and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Li Punti (SS), Italy)
Chapter XVIII - The Role of Chitin and Chitinases in Asthma;pp. 295-307
(Max A. Seibold and Esteban Gonzalez Burchard
Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Lung Biology Center, Department of Medicine and the Institute for Human Genetics of the University of California, San Francisco, California, USA)
Chapter XIX - Chitinase like lectins in humans;pp. 309-338
(Julia Kzhyshkowska, Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany)
Chapter XX - Role of AMCase in the gastric digestion of chitin and chit in gastric pathologies;pp. 339-358
(Maurizio G. Paoletti, Norberto Lorenzo, Elisa Cozzarini and Salvatore Musumeci, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Agroecology and Ethnobiology, University of Padova, Padova; Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Science, Section 1st of General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy Unit, University of Padova, Padova; Department of Neurosciences and Mother and Child Sciences,University of Sassari and Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, CNR, Li Punti (SS), Italy)
Chapter XXI - Role of chitinase in gastroenterology;pp. 359-381 (Emiko Mizoguchi and Mayumi Kawada Department of Medicine and Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA U.S.A.)
Chapter XXII - The Biochemical significance of allosamidins as Chitinase inhibitors;pp. 383-402
(Shohei Sakuda, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter XXIII – From danger signal to Messengers of Symbiosis: Recognition of chitin and chitin-derived chito-oligosaccharides in nature;pp. 403-419
(Franco Falcone, School of Pharmacy, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
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