Includes bibliographical references and index.

The immunology of gene transfer : an overview / Braden Waters, David Lillicrap -- Innate immune responses to nucleic acids / Ken J. Ishii, Shohei Koyama, Shizuo Akira -- The antiviral innate immune response / Mark E. Seamone, Daniel A. Muruve -- Immune responses to adenoviral vectors / Nelson C. DiPaolo, Dmitry M. Shayakhmetov -- Immune responses to lentiviral vectors / Lung-Ji Chang -- Immune responses to adeno-associated virus vectors / Shih-Wen Lin, Hildegund Ertl -- Immune responses after in utero and neonatal gene transfer / Simon N. Waddington ... [et al.] -- Immunology of hepatic gene transfer / Brad E. Hoffman, Roland W. Herzog -- Immune responses to adenoviral, AAV, and lentiviral vectors used for gene therapy of brain diseases / Pedro Lowenstein ... [et al.] -- Immunology of cutaneous gene transfer / Soosan Ghazizadeh -- Immune responses to pulmonary gene therapy / Christian Muller, Terence R. Flotte -- Induction of immune tolerance through gene transfer to hematopoietic stem cells / Jessamyn Bagley, Chaorui Tian, John Iacomini -- Reconstitution of the immune system by gene therapy / Waseem Qasim, Adrian Thrasher -- Genetics of the immune response to proteins expressed after gene transfer / Jay Lozier -- Immune modulation and transient suppression strategies / Valder R. Arruda -- Gene therapy for autoimmune diseases / Massimo M. Trucco, Paul D. Robbins, Nick Giannoukakis -- Engineering of viral capsids to evade the host immune system / Luca Perabo ... [et al.].