Immunology

With this book we* want to address young graduate students, clini- cians involved in transplantation, and technicians in transplantation immunology laboratories.

This book is the result of the 3rd Wiggers Bernard Conference.

This book presents a unique overview of all aspects of host defense alterations under stressful conditions.

The amazing world of the mononuclear phagocytes keeps expanding at a truly awesome pace.

Although upstaged by the tragic appearance of the human immunodeficiency virus, herpes simplex viruses (HSV) types 1 and 2 continue to be major human pathogens against which we lack acceptable vaccines or other means of immunological control.

Shigellosis is present all over the world.

Advances in Controlled Clinical Inhalation Studiesrepresents scientific work presented at the 3rdInternational Inhalation Symposium held 1991 in Hannover,FRG.

Advances in the understanding of the pathogenetic mechanismsinvolved in uveitis and uveoretinitis led to theintroduction of various new therapeuticmodalities for thesediseases, thus raising the need for a comprehensive andreproducible standard scoring system.

Band 3 der Reihe Ökosystem Darm befaßt sich mit den Abwehrmechanismen im Magen-Darm-Trakt.

As a result of the molecular genetic analysis of development similar mechanisms for the regulation of gene expression are found in a wide range of organisms.

In this volume a comprehensive review of membrane proteinsthat regulate complement and perforin-mediated cytolysis ispresented.

Many RNA viruses have been known for decades to be genetically and biologically quite variable.

Immunology is largely a science of observation and experimentation, and these approaches have lead to great increases in our knowledge of the genes, molecules and cells of the immune system.

Although prostaglandin El (PGE ) has been clinically available for a long 1 time, only in recent years has its effectiveness in peripheral arterial occlusive disease been confirmed in controlled studies.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the mostrecent trends in human leukemia, as presented at the NinthWilsede Meeting.

Canine parvovirus (CPV), a new virus of the Canidae firstappeared during the 1970s, but disease caused by this viruswas not reported until 1978.

Molecular recognition undoubtedly governs any aspect ofcellular interaction.

Recent experimental and clinical progress in the evaluation of cytokines in treatment concepts for cancer patients is the central theme of this book in the ESO Monographs series.

In about 5% of all organ (kidney, liver) transplant recipients, malignancies occur as a late complication of the massive immunosuppression.

Current knowledge relevant to the understanding of thyroid autoimmunity is summarized in this book.

Ökosystem Darm II setzt den interdisziplinären Dialog fort, der mit dem vor einem Jahr erschienenen Band "Ökosystem Darm: Morphologie, Mikrobiologie, Immunologie - Klinik und Therapie akuter und chronischer entzündlicher Darmerkrankungen" begonnen wurde.

Many advances have occurred in the last 5 years especiallyin understanding genetic susceptibility factors, the role ofimmune response in chronic arthritis and the relationshipbetween cellular processes that underlie inflammation andtissue damage.

The prevention and control of infectious diseases represents, even today, an important public health problem for responsible national and international authorities.

Our current understanding of a/~ T cell receptor (TCR) ex- pressing T cells advanced from function and specificity to the molecular organization ofthe TCR.

This book is dedicated to the memory of Walter Brendel, late Professor of Experimental Surgery and Chairman of the Institute for Surgical Research at the University of Munich, Germany.

PCR, developed at Cetus Corporation/USA by Henry A.

The eighth workshop in this series on Mechanisms in B-Cell Neoplasia 1990 was held in Wilson Hall at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland on March 28-30.

This volume forms part of a prestigious series and covers the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma.

Together with the two previous volumes of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on histamine and antihistamines the present publication yields a picture of a still rapidly developing field of research.

A host of environmental factors regulate the embryonic development of neurons.

The purpose of this volume is to highlight some current areas of poxvirus research which are likely to be particularly fruitful in the upcoming few years.

Da die Diagnostik und Therapie allergischer Krankheiten des Magen-Darm-Traktes in den letzten 30 Jahren weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten ist, besteht in Klinik und Praxis eine Informationslücke.

Dieses Buch gibt eine aktuelle Übersicht über pathogenetische Grundlagen, Effekte und mögliche Nebenwirkungen der immunologisch wirksamen Therapie bei Multipler Sklerose.

Although retroviruses have long been associated with a variety of animal diseases, active research in the field of human retroviruses dates from the discovery of human immunodefici- ency virus (HIV) in association with acquired immunodefici- ency syndrome (AIDS).

Candida, which was discovered more than a century ago as a causative organism of oral thrush, is now thought to potentially infect almost every tissue of the human body.

By their powers of reason scientists will be able to extract from nature the answers to their questions.

Although immunologists know rather a lot about the manif- estation of immunological memory, an understanding of the mechanism of memory at cellular and biochemical levels eludes us.

Research in diabetes has accelerated in two areas, both of which are being reviewed in CTMI.

Autoimmune diseases are common and often associated with considerable morbidity or - in diseases such as IDDM, myasthenia gravis and multiple sclerosis - mortality.

Der vorliegende Band vermittelt einen interdisziplinären und deshalb auf seine Art ungewöhnlichen Überblick über neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, Störfaktoren und die praktisch-therapeutische Beeinflußbarkeit des Ökosystems Darm.