VOLUME S1, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 1, PAGES 1-44

Chemokines and chemokine receptors as therapeutic targets in chronic kidney disease
Volker Vielhauer, Hans-Joachim Anders

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 1-12, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Stephan Segerer]

Chemokines and B cells in renal inflammation and allograft rejection
Oliver M. Steinmetz, Rolf A.K. Stahl, Ulf Panzer

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 13-22, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Stephan Segerer]

Tendon tissue engineering with mesenchymal stem cells and biografts: an option for large tendon defects?
Xiao Chen, Xiao Hui Zou , Guo Li Yin , Hong Wei Ouyang ,

[Frontiers in Bioscience s1, 23-32, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Nicola Maffulli]

Thrombomodulin in the treatment of atherothrombotic diseases
Yi-Heng Li, Guey-Yueh Shi, Hua-Lin Wu

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 33-38, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: James Cox]

Imaging reactive oxygen species dynamics in living cells and tissues
Chau-Chung Wu, Yen-Bin Liu, Long-Sheng Lu, Chii-Wann Lin

[Frontiers in Bioscience s1, 39-44, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Jaw-Wen Chen]

VOLUME S1, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 2, PAGES 43-116

Nuclear factor-kappa B links carcinogenic and chemopreventive agents
Ranju Ralhan, Manoj K. Pandey, Bharat B. Aggarwal

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 45-60, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Sanjay K. Srivastava]

Regulation of cadherin-based epithelial cell adhesion by endocytosis
Sergey M. Troyanovsky

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 61-67, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Andrei I. Ivanov]

Immune defenses of Xenopus laevis against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Louise A. Rollins-Smith, Jeremy P. Ramsey, Laura K. Reinert, Douglas C. Woodhams, Lauren J. Livo, Cynthia Carey

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 68-91, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Jacques Robert]

Skeletal morphogenesis and restructuring and their linkage to the pituitary-thyroid axis
Jameel Iqbal, Terry F. Davies, Li Sun, Etsuko Abe, Angelo Carpi, Jeffrey Mechanick, Mone Zaidi

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 92-107, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Andrea Nicolini]

Natural killer T cell-mediated immunotherapy for malignant diseases
Shinichiro Motohashi, Toshinori Nakayama

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 108-116, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Shin-ichiro Fujii]

VOLUME S1, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 3, PAGES 117-163

Locally produced and activated complement as a mediator of alloreactive T cell immunity
Peter N. Lalli, Wuding Zhou, Steven Sacks, M. Edward Medof, Peter. S. Heeger

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 117-124, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Daniel R. Goldstein]

The role of FGF-2 in renal fibrogenesis
Frank Strutz

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 125-131, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Youhua Liu]

CTGF and chronic kidney fibrosis
Xin-Ming Chen, Weier Qi, Carol A Pollock

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 132-141, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Youhua Liu]

Mass Spectrometric analysis of histone variants and post-translational modifications
Benjamin A. Garcia

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 142-153, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Douglas Ruden]

Epigenetics in viral and cellular gene regulation: unraveling oncogenic processes in the BLV ovine leukemia model
Makram Merimi, Yurda Ozkan, Yvette Cleuter, Philip Griebel, Arsene Burny , Philippe Martiat, Anne Van den Broeke

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 154-163, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

VOLUME S1, JANUARY 1, 2009, ISSUE 4, PAGES 164-215

Regulation of mu-opioid receptors by cytokines
Jurgen Kraus

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 164-170, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Yingxian Pa]

Mitogen activated protein kinases in renal fibrosis
Frank Y Ma, Mythily Sachchithananthan, Robert S Flanc, David J Nikolic-Paterson

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 171-187, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Youhua Liu]

Current concepts in biobanking: development and implementation of a tissue repository
Lalita A. Shevde, Adam I. Riker

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 188-193, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Jingfang Ju]

The leukemogenic activity of the HTLV-1 Tax protein during abT cell development in the human thymus
Melanie Wencker, Louis Gazzolo, Madeleine Duc Dodon

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 194-204, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

Gene activation therapy: from the BLV model to HAM/TSP patients
Agnes Lezin, Stephane Olindo, Gildas Belrose, Aissatou Signate , Raymond Cesaire, Didier Smadja, Derek Macallan, Becca Asquith, Charles Bangham, Amel Bouzar, Nicolas Gillet, Julien Defoiche, Arnaud Florins, Olivier Verlaeten, Arsene Burny, Luc Willems

[Frontiers in Bioscience S1, 205-215, January 1, 2009]
[Managing Editor: Franco Buonaguro]

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