Immunology

This volume deals with the structure and function of molecules that have, during the last decade, turned out to have a central role in immune responses.

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The good acceptance of this textbook is an indication that it has served its purpose.

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Nach langjähriger ärztlicher, klinischer und akademischer Tätig­ keit legt Professor Dr.

For more than ten years cell fusion techniques have been applied in studies on various lymphocyte functions.

Howard C.

All but one* of the following articles represent comprehensive reports on a workshop held between 7 and 9 May 1981 at the Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wfuzburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

Natural resistance is now coming to be recognized as a potentially important phenomenon in host defense against infection and ma- lignancy.

Several discoveries are noteworthy for allowing us to probe the recesses of the virus- infected cell and to search for cryptic viral genomes which might provide clues in our studies of cancer etiology or developmental biology.

It is with great pleasure and ,much interest that I accepted to write the foreword to this book by Paul Doury, Yves Dirheimer, and Serge Pattin on the subject of "e;algodystrophy.

The discovery of specifically acquired immunity which followed the major contributions of Louis Pasteur completely over-shadowed the first studies of the host's natural resistance.

From the first to the third of August, 1980, an international sym- posium entitled "e;New Trends in Allergy"e; was held in Munich, sponsored by the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, in cooperation with the German Society for Allergy and Immunity Research and the European Society for Dermatological Research.

Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NIH)

Bone marrow transplantation, the goal which integrates hemato- logists, immunologists, geneticists, oncologists and specialists of several other fields, has overcome its state of stagnation in recent years.

Throughout the centuries, inflammation has been considered as a disease in itself.

With the introduction of antibiotics acute inflammatory disease has ceased to be the dominant problem in general medical practice and its place is now increasingly occupied by chronic inflamma- tory disease of which the rheumatic diseases constitute the most important group.

Expression of an immune response is the net result of complex synergis- tic and antagonistic activities performed by a variety of cell types.

Prominent progress in molecular biology was only made when it became possible to separate functionally distinct molecules by taking advantage of their biophysical properties.

Four decades ago, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus was discovered, at about the same time and independently, in 3 different localities in the U.

This volume contains papers presented at a symposium on "e;The Role of Lympho- cytes and Macrophages in the Immunological Response"e; at the XIII International Congress of Haematology, Munich, August 1970.

The Second Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology was held at the Intern- ational Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy in November and December of 1986.

Although astonishing progress has been achieved during recent years in the treatment of patients afflicted with AIDS, this disease is still spreading in much of the developing world, where economic resources are limited.

In February 1985 a small international meeting of scientists took place at the recreation resort of the Polish Academy of Sci- ences in Mogilany, near Cracow, Poland.

At this congress there were again numereous reports ofprogress in immunology.

The disease that came to be called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first identified in the summer of 1981.

This volume of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology is concerned with a class of molecules that are the most potent polyclonal stimulators of T lymphocytes of several species.

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