Publisher Summary This chapter reviews two research areas that attract unprecedented
attention in a growing number of laboratories the functions of chemokines, their receptors in
lymphocytes and lymphoid tissues, and the role of chemokines in HIV infection. Several new
chemokines and receptors have been identified and information on their binding selectivity
and on the chromosomal location of their genes has been extended in this chapter.
Chemokines are not just the mediators of leukocyte recruitment for host defense (for …