Immune System - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies.

30 Oct 2008 Cell types are fundamental units of multicellular life but their evolution is obscure. How did the first cell types emerge and become distinct in animal evolution? What were the sets of cell types that existed at important evolutionary nodes that ... Read more...

[Immune monitoring in SIRS and sepsis based on the PIRO model]

26 Oct 2008 Sepsis is a life-threatening disease characterized by a complex interaction between pathogens and the immune system. The analysis of immune parameters in patients with sepsis or at risk for sepsis may help to identify predisposing factors and ... Read more...

Positive and negative influences of regulatory T cells on tumour immunity.

7 Oct 2008 Clinicians and scientists have long questioned whether the immune system has a role in destroying cancerous tissue. Studies performed in animal models have, however, recently revealed that the immune system can, at least in principle, effectively ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Immune System'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The evolution of cell types in animals: emerging principles from molecular studies. 30 Oct 2008
• Abstracts of the 13th Meeting of the European Society for Immunology. October 16-19, 2008. 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. 30 Oct 2008
• [Immune monitoring in SIRS and sepsis based on the PIRO model] 26 Oct 2008
• Cancer and the immune system: an overview. 7 Oct 2008
• Positive and negative influences of regulatory T cells on tumour immunity. 7 Oct 2008
• MicroRNAs: key players in the immune system, differentiation, tumorigenesis and cell death. 7 Oct 2008
• Cognitive dysfunction in mice deficient for TNF- and its receptors. 3 Oct 2008
• Interaction of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi with brain parenchyma elicits inflammatory mediators from glial cells as well as glial and neuronal apoptosis. 30 Sep 2008
• Granulocyte-macrophage-colony-stimulating factor-dependent peritoneal macrophage responses determine survival in experimentally induced peritonitis and sepsis in mice. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of neutrophils in severe sepsis. 29 Sep 2008
• Lymphoid tissue ontogeny in the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus. 29 Sep 2008
• Effects of the medicinal mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill on immunity, infection and cancer. 29 Sep 2008
• A rationalized set of default postulates that permit a coherent description of the immune system amenable to computer modeling. 29 Sep 2008
• Beginning of the end of (understanding) the immune response. 29 Sep 2008
• Functional analysis of the SUMOylation pathway in Drosophila. 29 Sep 2008
• Uremic lung: new insights into a forgotten condition. 29 Sep 2008
• The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells. 29 Sep 2008
• Megadose CD34(+) cell grafts improve recovery of T cell engraftment but not B cell immunity in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency disease undergoing haplocompatible nonmyeloablative transplantation. 29 Sep 2008
• Biologic effects of nitrous oxide: a mechanistic and toxicologic review. 29 Sep 2008
• Targeting metastatic cancer from the inside: a new generation of targeted gene delivery vectors enables personalized cancer vaccination in situ. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Immune System'

Definition: The body's defense mechanism against foreign organisms or substances and deviant native cells. It includes the humoral immune response and the cell-mediated response and consists of a complex of interrelated cellular, molecular, and genetic components.

Descriptor UI: D007107

Alternative terms: Immune System; Immune Systems; System, Immune; Systems, Immune;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; innervation; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A15.382;

Online Note: pre-explosion = IMMUNE SYSTEM (PX)

History Note: 85

Technical Notes: GEN: prefer specifics; /physiol: consider also IMMUNITY & its indentions