The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for informa- tion, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
With this book we* want to address young graduate students, clini- cians involved in transplantation, and technicians in transplantation immunology laboratories.
In 1957 Otto SCHAUMANN, one of the pionieers in pharmacological research on morphine and the first to prepare synthetic opiates, presented a mono- graph entitled "e;Morphin und morphiniihnliche Verbindungen"e; as Volume 12 of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology.
Introducing this monograph by expressing our heartfeIt thanks to all those who have contributed to its success may seem no more than a rhetorical exercise.
It is now apparent that several fields of investigation areconverging upon each other as the goal of finding apractical way to prevent cancer is pursued.
Soft tissue tumors are a very heterogeneous group of tumors in terms of histogenesis, morphology, cytogenetics, molecular biology, clinical manifestation, and prognosis.
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.
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.
Studies on the colon not only serve medical interest or clinical purposes, but are also a highly interesting subject of comparative physiology, from which we can learn much about the basic principles in physiology.
