1. Dedication

   Dedication Pages: 5 - 5

2. Introduction to galectins

   • Hakon Leffler
   • Susanne Carlsson
   • Francoise Poirier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 440

3. Galectin genes: Regulation of expression

   • Lorenzo Chiariotti
   • Paola Salvatore
   • Carmelo B. Bruni

   OriginalPaper Pages: 441 - 449

4. The speciation of conger eel galectins by rapid adaptive evolution

   • Tomohisa Ogawa
   • Tsuyoshi Shirai
   • Koji Muramoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 451 - 458

5. Thermodynamic binding studies of galectin-1, -3 and -7

   • C. Fred Brewer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 459 - 465

6. Galectin-1: A bifunctional regulator of cellular proliferation

   • Ken Scott
   • Cristina Weinberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 467 - 477

7. Galectin-1 plays essential roles in adult mammalian nervous tissues. Roles of oxidized galectin-1

   • Hidenori Horie
   • Toshihiko Kadoya

   OriginalPaper Pages: 479 - 489

8. Galectin 9 is the sugar-regulated urate transporter/channel UAT

   • Michael S. Lipkowitz
   • Edgar Leal-Pinto
   • Ruth G. Abramson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 491 - 498

9. Understanding the biochemical activities of galectin-1 and galectin-3 in the nucleus

   • Ronald J. Patterson
   • Weizhong Wang
   • John L. Wang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 499 - 506

10. Regulation of cellular homeostasis by galectins

    • Daniel K. Hsu
    • Fu-Tong Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 507 - 515

11. Role of galectin-8 as a modulator of cell adhesion and cell growth

    • Yehiel Zick
    • Miriam Eisenstein
    • Denise Ronen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 526

12. Extracellular functions of galectin-3

    • Josiah Ochieng
    • Vyacheslav Furtak
    • Pavel Lukyanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 535

13. Expression of galectins in cancer: A critical review

    • Frédéric van den Brûle
    • Stèphane Califice
    • Vincent Castronovo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 537 - 542

14. Galectin-3 and metastasis

    • Yukinori Takenaka
    • Tomoharu Fukumori
    • Avraham Raz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 543 - 549

15. 90K (Mac-2 BP) and galectins in tumor progression and metastasis

    • Antonino Grassadonia
    • Nicola Tinari
    • Stefano Iacobelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 551 - 556

16. Human galectin-8 isoforms and cancer

    • Nathalie Bidon-Wagner
    • Jean-Paul Le Pennec

    OriginalPaper Pages: 557 - 563

17. Shedding light on the immunomodulatory properties of galectins: Novel regulators of innate and adaptive immune responses

    • Gabriel A. Rabinovich
    • Marta A. Toscano
    • Natalia Rubinstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 565 - 573

18. Galectins as inflammatory mediators

    • Jenny Almkvist
    • Anna Karlsson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 581

19. Seeing strangers or announcing “danger”: Galectin-3 in two models of innate immunity

    • Sachiko Sato
    • Julie Nieminen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 591

20. Galectin-9 in physiological and pathological conditions

    • Mitsuomi Hirashima
    • Yumiko Kashio
    • Takanori Nakamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 593 - 600

21. Galectins in parasite infection and allergic inflammation

    • Anna R. Young
    • Els N. Meeusen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 601 - 606

22. Insect galectins: Roles in immunity and development

    • Karen E. Pace
    • Linda G. Baum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 614

23. The involvement of galectin-1 in skeletal muscle determination, differentiation and regeneration

    • Diana J. Watt
    • Gareth E. Jones
    • Kirstin Goldring

    OriginalPaper Pages: 615 - 619

24. Galectins in kidney development

    • R. Colin Hughes

    OriginalPaper Pages: 621 - 629

25. Subject Index

    Subject Index Pages: 631 - 635

26. Author Index

    Authors Index Pages: 637 - 638