This books provides the most up-to-date reviews on current advances in our understanding of the regulation of heat shock protein responses. Key basic scientists and clinical research laboratories from major universities, academic medical centers and pharmaceutical companies around the world have contributed chapters that review present research activity and importantly project this field into the future. For easy readability, the book is sub divided into four sections, including, Section I - HSP and Stress Responses; Section II - Chaperone Functions of HSP; Section III - HSP in Human Diseases; Section IV - Prognosis & Diagnosis of HSP. The book is a must read for researchers involved in biomedical research, drug discovery and design to improve human health.

HSP AND STRESS RESPONSES

Regulation of Mammalian HSP70 Expression and Stress Response
Heat Shock Proteins and Pesticide Stress
Heat Shock Proteins and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Heat Shock Proteins in Stress in Teleosts
Life in Suspended Animation: Role of Chaperone Proteins in Vertebrate and Invertebrate Stress Adaptation
Heat Shock Proteins as Sensors for Mechanical Stress
CHAPERONE FUNCTION OF HSP
The 70 KDA Heat Shock Protein Hsp70 as Part of a Protein Disaggregase System
Molecular Chaperones: Structure-Function Relationship and Their Role in Protein Folding
ER Stress, Human Health and Role of Ca2+-Binding Chaperones
Hsp70: A Multi-tasking Chaperone at the Crossroad of Cellular Proteostasis
HSP IN HUMAN DISEASE
Heat Shock Protein Response to Overuse Injuries
Heat Shock Protein 90: Truly Moonlighting!
Geroscience From Cell-body Dynamics and Proteostasis Cooperation Supported by B-crystallin and Human will ~ A Proposal of "Body-Mind Integrative Science"
Heat Shock Protein 70 (Hsp70) in the Regulation of Platelet Function
Heat Shock Protein Responses In Septic Patients
Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) Family in Dengue Virus Infection
Roles and Regulation of the Heat Shock Proteins of the Major Human Pathogen Helicobacter pylori
Heat Shock Protein Expression in Various Tissues in Thermal Stress.