1. Feature, structure and classification of adhesion molecules : an overview / Deirdre R. Coombe and Danielle E. Dye -- 2. Immunohistochemical localization of adhesion molecules / H. Wayne Sampson and Alan R. Parrish -- 3. Junctional adhesion molecules (JAMs) / Klaus Ebnet, Volker Gerke and Michel Aurrand-Lions -- 4. Molecular imaging of endothelial adhesion molecules / Alistair C. Lindsay, Martina A. McAteer and Robin P. Choudhury -- 5. Deleterious roles of inflammatory adhesion molecules during aging / Yani Zou, Byung Pal Yu and Hae Young Chung -- 6. The PI3K/Akt-NF-kappa B signaling pathway and hypoxia-induced mitogenic factor in vascular adhesion molecule 1 gene expression / Dechun Li -- 7. Arginine and adhesion molecules / Sung-Ling Yeh -- 8. Adhesion molecules in stem cells / Hiroko Hisha, Xiaoli Wang and Susumu Ikehara -- 9. Adhesion molecules and neutrophil migration / Beth A. McCormick -- 10. Adhesion molecules in leukocytes and their reactivity / Maria Bokarewa and Piotr Mydel -- 11. Adhesion molecules in decompression sickness and ischemia reperfusion injury / Nancy J. Bigley and Barbara E. Hull -- 12. Endothelial adhesion molecules in diabetes / Yiqing Song, Cuilin Zhang and Simin Liu -- 13. Adhesion molecules in obesity and metabolic syndrome / Michelle A. Miller -- 14. Weight loss and adhesion molecules / Jennifer B. Keogh and Peter M. Clifton -- 15. Hypoxia reperfusion injury and adhesion molecules / Kamran Ghori -- 16. Adhesion molecules in kidney diseases / Maurizio Li Vecchi and Giuseppe Montalto --

17. Adhesion molecules and smoking / Matthew J. Garabedian and Kristine Y. Lain -- 18. Osteoprotegerin and adhesion-molecules / Catherine Rush and Jonathan Golledge -- 19. Adhesion molecules in skin / Robert C. Fuhlbrigge and Ahmed Gehad -- 20. Expression of cell-cell adhesion molecules in matrical tumors of hairs, nails, teeth and pituitary gland / Alejandro Peralta Soler and James L. Burchette -- 21. Bioinformatics analysis to identify cell adhesion molecules in cancer / Anguraj Sadanandam, William J. Gibb and Rakesh K. Singh -- 22. Endothelial cell adhesion molecules and cancer progression / Kimberly C. Boelte, Hanako Kobayashi and P. Charles Lin -- 23. Adhesion molecule phosphorylation in cancer chemotherapy / Geraldine M. O'Neill -- 24. Adhesion molecules in normal hematopoiesis and leukemia / Mirela de Barros Tamarozzi and Eduardo Magalh�es Rego -- 25. Carbamylated low-density lipoprotein and adhesion molecules / Eugene O. Apostolov. [and others] -- 26. Adhesion molecules and oxidized low-density lipoprotein / Masaaki Matsumoto -- 27. Adhesion molecules in atrial fibrillation / Matthias Hammwohner. [and others] -- 28. Apolipoproteins and cell adhesion molecules / Chunyu Zheng, Frank M. Sacks and Masanori Aikawa -- 29. Marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and cellular adhesion molecules in healthy subjects and in patients with ischaemic heart disease / Ole Eschen, Jeppe Hagstrup Christensen and Erik Berg Schmidt -- 30. Soluble adhesion molecules in brain infarction / Toshitaka Umemura. [and others] -- 31. Adhesion molecules in dementia / Sabina Janciauskiene, Sun Yong-Xin and Jia Jianping.