First Benny Shomer from Isreal asked why is there not an immunology group
on Bionet. Then, I formally proposed a newsgroup and offered to be the
Discussion Leader. Then 105 people world-wide with an interest in immunology
voted for it. So here we go, with many thanks to David Kristofferson and his
electronic wizards for setting the whole thing up.
Topics of interest might be:
Mechanism of self/not-self discrimination
Evolution and role of MHC polymorphism
Two signal hypotheses
Education of T cells
Education of B cells
T cell and B cell cooperation
G0/G1 switch to activate ICCs (immunologically competent cells)
Mechanisms of ICC deletion or suppression
T cell receptors
B cell receptors
Lymphokines
Signal transduction pathways
Complement
Parasite strategies to avoid the immune response
Why does not a placental mammal not reject the fetal "graft"?
Relationship of heat-shock response to intracellular self discrimination
Mechanism of action of cyclosporine
The acute phase response
Role of fever in infections- positive or negative?
Protocols and Methods.
Data on hybridoma and cell clones.
No doubt the group will take on a flavour of its own irrespective of the
above suggestions.
So, Welcome to Bionet.immunology.
Yours sincerely,
Donald R. Forsdyke, Department of Biochemistry,
Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada K7L3N6
forsdyke at qucdn.queensu.ca 613-545-2980.
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