The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System
[Book]
edited by Eli E. Sercarz, Franco Celada, N. Avrion Mitchison, Tomio Tada.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1988
NATO ASI series., Series H,, Cell biology ;, 23.
Semiotics and Immunology: An Introduction --; Conceptual Debt of Semiotics to Immunology --; General Aspects of Communication Within the Immune System --; Intermezzo --; Organizational Patterns, and the Origin of Meaning --; Self-Referential and Autonomous Nature of Immune System --; The Creation of Signs and the Language of Immune Interaction --; Cellular Connectivity and Suppression --; Choices and Decisions.
This book introduces into a newly developing branch of biology, the semiotics of cellular communication. The number of known cell subpopulations of lymphocytes, their mediators and receptors has increased tremendously in recent years. An intercellular web of recognition and, in turn, activation or depression of various cellular functions joins all lymphocytes. This interaction of a particular lymphocyte in one subpopulation with the appropriate partner from another subpopulation for regulatory or cooperative purposes requires an efficient and unambiguous system of intercellular recognition and pairing, involving the perception of specific signs by each of the cellular participants.
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System held at Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy, September 9-12, 1986
Allergy.
Immunology.
Medicine.
QR182
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E358
1988
edited by Eli E. Sercarz, Franco Celada, N. Avrion Mitchison, Tomio Tada.