Includes bibliographical references and index.

Functional morphology of the intestinal mucosae: from crypts to tips / Jerrold R. Turner -- Role of intestinal M cells in microbial pathogenesis / Marian R. Neutra, Philippe Sansonetti, and Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl -- Intestinal immunity / Iris Dotan and Lloyd Mayer -- Cytokines and epithelial function / Sean P. Colgan, Glenn T. Furuta, and Cormac T. Taylor -- Role of toll-like receptors in innate immunity of the intestine / Elke Cario and Daniel K. Podolsky -- Intestinal immunoglobulin A: role in host defense / Jiri Mestecky and Michael W. Russell -- Sequence-based methods for investigating intestinal microbes / David N. Fredricks -- Application of microarray analysis to the investigation of host-pathogen interactions / Dawn A. Israel and Richard M. Peek, Jr. -- Pathogen-initiated inflammatory response in intestinal epithelial cells: cross talk with neutrophils / Andrew T. Gewirtz [et al.]. --;Upregulation of innate defense mechanisms by enteric infections / Martin F. Kagnoff -- Microbial interference with host inflammatory responses / Andrew S. Neish -- Antimicrobial peptide effectors of small intestinal innate immunity / Andre J. Ouellette and Michael E. Selsted -- Role of commensal enteric bacteria in intestinal inflammation: lessons from animal models / R. Balfour Sartor --;Physiological regulation of gastrointestinal ion transport / Kim E. Barrett and Lone S. Bertelsen -- Epithelial response to enteric pathogens: activation of chloride: secretory pathways / V. K. Viswanathan and Gail Hecht -- Enteric pathogens that affect intestinal epithelial tight junctions / Gail Hecht --;Enteric microbial toxins and the intestinal epithelial cytoskeleton / James P. Nataro ... [et al.]. -- Ontogeny of the host response to enteric microbial infection / Bobby J. Cherayil and W. Allan Walker -- Neuroimmune interactions and pathogenesis of intestinal inflammation in infectious disease / Charalabos Pothoulakis -- Apoptosis and enteric bacterial infections / Ba??rbel Raupach and Arturo Zychlinsky -- Trafficking of cholera toxin and related bacterial enterotoxins: pathways and endpoints / Chiara Rodighiero and Wayne I. Lencer -- Type III secretion systems of enteric bacterial pathogens / Catherine A. Lee --;How noninvasive pathogens induce disease: lessons from enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic escherichia coli / Bruce A. Vallance, Crystal Chan, and B. Brett Finlay -- Salmonella spp.: masters of inflammation / Beth A. Mccormick -- Effector molecules of shigella pathogenesis and host responses / M. Isabel Fernandez and Philippe J. Sansonetti -- Toxins of vibrio cholerae: consensus and controversy / Karla Jean Fullner -- Pathogenicity of clostridium difficile toxins / Michel Warny and Ciara??n P. Kelly -- Viral pathogens of the intestine / Mary K. Estes and Robert L. Atmar.