Davies Contemporary Topics in Immunobiology

Thymus Dependency
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4684-0919-2
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 368 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contemporary topics in immunobiology

This second volume of Contemporary Topics in Immunobiology considers many aspects of thymus dependency in order to exemplify the role of the thy mus in different species and different immunological responses. It is not in tended to be a compendium of the responses which have been shown to be thymus dependent but rather to illustrate for the reader the criteria he should apply in thinking about the significance of the thymus in immune responses. We are grateful to the editors and publishers of the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, the Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science, Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Immunology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine, the Journal of Immunology, Laboratory Investigation, Nature, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine and to Springer-Verlag, Berlin, for permission to reproduce illustrations. Specific references are given in the text. We would also like to thank the contributors for their time and energy and willingness to submit to the editorial red pencils. The exercise of these censori ous instruments meant that the manuscripts had to be reorganized and retyped. Mrs. J. Pettis, Mrs. A. Inglefield, and Miss M. Butt all helped, and we are most grateful to them. A.J.S.D. R.L.e.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Thymus and Lymphomyeloid System in Poikilothermic Vertebrates.- 2. Effect of Thymectomy on Immunological Responses in the Sheep.- 3. Nature of the Responding Organism: Responders and Nonresponders.- 4. The Intrathymic Environment.- 5. A Note on Hassall’s Corpuscles.- 6. Cell Migration and the Thymus.- 7. Ecology of Thymus Dependency.- 8. Morphological Changes in the Thymus-Dependent Lymphoid System Associated with Pathological Conditions in Animals and Man: Their Functional Significance.- 9. Immunological Memory.- 10. Effects of Adjuvants on Interactions of Different Cell Types in Immune Responses.- 11. Cytotoxic Cells.- 12. Thymus Dependency of Rosette-Forming Cells.- 13. Antigen-Binding Cells of the Thymus.- 14. Thymus Dependency and Chronic Antigenic Stimulation: Immunity to Parasitic Protozoans and Helminths.- 15. The Thymus and Immune Surveillance.- 16. Thymus Independence.- 17. Effect of Pregnancy on the Restoration of Immunological Responses in Neonatally Thymectomized Female Mice.- 18. Thymus Hormones.- 19. Thymic Humoral Factors.- 20. Thymosin and Other Thymic Hormones: Their Nature and Roles in the Thymic Dependency of Immunological Phenomena.- 21. Some Clinical Implications of Thymus-Dependent Functions.