Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I . The Inflammatory Response -- Progress in Plasma Proteins: Hallmarks of Health and Markers of Disease -- Plasma Proteins Implicated in the Inflammatory Response -- Acute Inflammatory Process -- The Inflammatory Response -- Relationships between Acute Non-Specific Inf lamination and Non-Specific Defense Mechanisms of the Host -- The Role of Thrombocytes in Inflammation -- Section II. Acute Phase Reactants -- Clinical Usefulness of C Reactive Protein Measurement -- Control Proteins of the Alternative Complement Pathway In Vivo Correlates of In Vitro Function -- Plasma Fibronectin, its Biochemical and Biological Properties and its Pathological Changes in Man -- Interaction between C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Platelets -- Interactions between CRP and Mononuclear Cells -- Clinical Usefulness of Orosomucoid Determination -- Alpha1 Acid Glycoprotein - Structure, Genetics and Biological Significance -- Alphai1-Antitrypsin Structure and Genetics -- Affinity-Immunodeletion (AID) Isoelectric Focusing on Ultra-Thin Gels and Staining with Silver Diamine Applied to the Marker Proteins of Inflammation -- A Survey of the Measurement, Distribution of Values and Phenotypes of the Haptoglobins -- Recent Findings on the Biological Role of Haptoglobin in Rats -- Biochemical Aspects of Complement Activation -- The Acquired Abnormalities of the Complement System in the Acute or Chronic Inflammatory Response -- Acute Phase Reactant Protein Profiles in Cancer: An Approach to Deciphering their Message -- Plasma Protein Profile: A Model of Data for Interpretation with Special Reference to Inflammatory Conditions -- Section III. Malnutrition and the Immune Response -- Protein-Calorie Malnutrition-Clinical Biochemical and Immunological -- Complement, Orosomucoid, Transferrin, Retinol Binding Protein and Prealbumin in Malnutrition -- Cellular and Humoral Immunity in Malnutrition -- Immune Deficit in Kwashiorkor -- Inhibition of Cell-Mediated Immunity by Serum Abnormalities in Protein-Calorie Malnutrition -- Host Resistance in Malnutrition -- Usefulness of Prealbumin as Nutritional Indicator -- Section IV. Posters. -- A. Acute Phase Reactants in Neonates -- A Comparative Study of the Sequential and Coupled Determination of CRP and Orosomucoid during Neonatal Infections -- CRP and Neonatal Sepsis -- Characterization of a C2 Derived Oligopeptide with Biologic Activity -- Direct Quantitation of the Complement C3 Split Product C3d in Plasma in Immunopathological Disorders -- Variations of Orosomucoid Levels in New-Born Twins -- Complement Levels in Infants of Diabetic Mothers over the First Month of Life -- B. Protein Status in Clinical States -- Protein-Status and Malnutrition, Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study of 177 Patients -- Research of Relationship between Protein and Folic Acid Deficiencies -- The Measurements of Plasma Proteins in Patients with nutritional Deficiency -- Value of Plasma Prealbumin in the Early Recognition of Protein-Energy Malnutrition in Sahelian Children -- Visceral and Muscular Proteins in Anorexia Nervosa: An Example of Severe Malnutrition in Industrialized Countries. Effects of Renutrition -- C. Protein-Calorie Malnutrition and the Immune Response -- Effects of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition on the Cell- Mediated Immune Response in Mice -- Effects of Early Under- and Over-Nutrition on the Immune Response in Mice -- D. Inflammatory Proteins in Patients with Cancer -- Plasma Transferrin Level: A Preoperative Prognosis Indicator in Esophageal Cancer Patients -- Usefulness of a Protein Profile as an Indicator for a Gastrostomy in Patients with Advanced Head and Neck Cancer -- Acute Phase Reactant Proteins and Cancer -- Plasmapheresis in Cancer Patients and Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Prognostic Value of the Macrophage Component of an Inflammatory Reaction Induced by Skin Abrasion in Cancer Patients -- Nutritional Markers in Advanced Large Bowel Cancer -- Effects of Acute Phaweiterlesen