SECTION I: DOMESTIC ANIMALS -- Thermotolerance in Domestic Ruminants: A HSP70 Perspective -- Expression Dynamics of Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) in Livestock under Thermal Stress -- Heat Shock Protein Expression and Implications in Spontaneous Animal Tumors: Veterinary and Comparative Aspects -- Heat Shock Protein as an Adjuvant in Veterinary Vaccines -- SECTION II: POULTRY -- Antioxidant Systems and Vitagenes in Poultry Biology: Heat Shock Proteins -- Heat Shock Protein and Thermal Stress in Chicken -- SECTION III: AQUATIC -- Heat Shock Proteins in Fish Health and Diseases: A Pharmacological Perspective -- Physiological Role of Heat Shock Proteins, Molecular Function and Stress Removal in Fishes -- The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Response to Extracellular Stress in Aquatic Organisms -- Heat Shock Proteins in Aquaculture Disease Immunology and Stress Response of Crustaceans -- SECTION IV: PARASITES -- Heat Shock Proteins in Parasitic Flatworms -- Heat Shock Proteins: Role, Functions and Structure in Parasitic Helminths -- Heat Shock Proteins and Blood-Feeding in Arthropods -- Heat Shock Proteins in Leptospirosis -- Heat Shock Proteins in Vector-pathogen Interactions: The Anaplasma phagocytophilum Model.

The book Heat Shock Proteins in Veterinary Medicine and Sciences provides the most comprehensive review on contemporary knowledge on the role of heat shock proteins in veterinary medicine and sciences. Using an integrative approach to understanding heat shock protein physiology, the contributors provide a synopsis of novel mechanisms by which HSP are involved in the regulation of normal physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Key basic and clinical research laboratories from major universities and veterinary hospitals around the world contribute chapters that review present research activity and importantly project the field into the future. The book is a must read for veterinary doctors, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in the fields of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Physiology, Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Microbiology and Pathology.