Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Basel Institute for Immunology 4th-6th October 1998
edited by Fritz Melchers, Michael Potter.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1999
(xxix, 415 pages 111 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.)
Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 246.
B Cell and Plasma Cell Development --; Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors --; Chromosomal Translocations, DNA Rearrangement and Somatic Hypermutations --; Biology of Lymphomagenesis, B-Cell, Autoimmunity --; Myeloma, Plasmacytomas and Related Subjects.
Workshops on the mechanisms of B cell neoplasia have been organized alternatively in Bethesda and Basel since 1983. Progress in our understanding of the development and responses of B lymphocytes is presented and discussed with the aim and hope to understand what might go wrong when B lymphocytes are transformed into malignant cells. Such knowledge might lead to better diagnosis, prevention and even cure of these terrible diseases. This volume is the latest of a long series which documents the excitements of ground-breaking discoveries as well as the frustrations of our inability to fully understand the mechanisms leading to B cell neoplasia.