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The University of Michigan has been involved in Immunology-related research since the 1880s, but it wasn't until 1993, that a group of faculty from both basic science and clinical departments successfully obtained funding from the National Institutes of Health for an institutional T32 training grant to support students and post-doctoral fellows doing "Experimental Immunology." This T32 grant, which is still active today, was the basis for the formation of the Immunology Graduate Program founded in 1999.

The Immunology Graduate Program is an inter-departmental program comprised of faculty, students and post-doctoral fellows from many different departments within the University of Michigan Medical School, the School of Public Health, the Dental School and the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Health System. We are a doctoral degree-granting program housed within the Horace Rackham graduate school. Admission to the Immunology Graduate Program occurs through the umbrella Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS).

Immunology program members are involved in a broad range of basic and translational research topics. We have laboratories conducting basic studies in antigen processing and presentation, T, B and NK cell signaling and activation as well as innate immune cell functions. In addition, we have laboratories working on a variety of immune aspects related to autoimmunity, cancer, obesity, aging, transplantation and infectious diseases. It is a good time to be an Immunologist at U of M as our president, Dr. Mark Schlissel is an Immunologist too!

We hope you will find the information you are looking for within this website. However, if you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact the program director, Dr. Bethany Moore or the program administrator, Ms. Zarinah Aquil.

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="left"> Despite popular misconception, humans do not see a direct representation of external reality, but a translation formed by their eyes and mind. This is not some coffee house philosophical argument, but physiological fact. Human eyes do a good, but far from perfect job at detecting and processing light.

This page is an introuduction to the physiology of seeing and offers several interesting examples of optical distortion.

A Very Brief Overview of the Phsysiology of Seeing

When a human looks at an object, light from the object enters the eyes. The light goes through the cornea, which is a clear covering, then through the pupil which is a clear circle in the colored part of the eye called the iris. The pupil gets larger (dilates) when there is little light and smaller when there is little light. The lens focuses the light through the aqueous humor, a clear liquid, and onto the retina. The retina, in the back of the eye, contains millions of tiny photo sensors that detect the light. There are two main kinds of photo sensors: rods and cones. Shaped like rods, rods detect shades and forms and are needed for night and peripheral ('out of the corner of the eye') vision. Rods are not good at detecting color. Shaped like cones, cones are needed for seeing details, seeing in the bright daylight and seeing colors. Cones do not work well in low light, such as at night. Rods and cones cover the entire retina except for a spot where the optic nerve connects to the brain. The optic nerve carries the information received from the retina to the brain, where the brain translates it into the single image we perceive, or 'see.'

Blind Spots

All humans have blind spots, which are spots where the eye cannot see. The blind spot in an eye corresponds to the spot on the retina where the optical nerve connects the retina to the brain. At this spot there are no light detecting cells and, thus, this spot cannot detect light. A small object can disappear from view at the spot.

In everyday life the blind spot goes unnoticed. This is in part as the eye is constantly looking around, getting a wide and varied range of views. It is also in part as the brain uses the information from both eyes to create the single mental vision. What one eye misses, the other often picks up.

As its optical nerve connects differently, the octopus has no blind spot.

Detecting your blind spot

To detect your blind spot using the above red dot/green dot picture on the next page, close your right eye and look at the GREEN dot. Slowly move your head towards the picture. At one point the RED dot will disappear. Notice that the missing spot is filled in white by your mind, so it appears as if nothing is missing from your view. This illustrates how your blind spot goes unnoticed during daily living. Many people live their entire life not knowing they have a blind spot.

Humans have more glaring blind spots. Due to the placement of our eyes in our head, we can't naturally see behind us, under our feet, from the top of our head, behind our elbows. A common saying to explain why we didn't notice something is, "I don't have eyes in the back of my head." And it's common knowledge that if you want to sneak up on a person you approach from behind. We compensate for these blinds spots by turning around, moving our heads, using a mirror or other reflection, saying "Who's that behind me?," listening, noticing shadows.

Other animals have different eye placement and fields of view. As a robin has its eyes on the side of its head, it has better side view but worse directly ahead view. The robin's life depends on its being able to detecting predators from the side and back. When hunting for worms in the grass, robins turn their heads. Some think they are turning their ear to listen for worms, when they are turning their heads to see in front of them. A wolf, which is a hunter stalking prey, has eyes placement best suited for seeing ahead. The wolf sees better straight ahead, but its side to side vision is worse than a robin's. A crocodile has eyes that rise above the rest of its head. Not only does this create a different field of view, but allows the crocodile to see above water while the most of its head and body are hidden below water. The eyes serve as periscopes.

' Afterimages: Seeing What Isn't There

Afterimages are when, after staring at an object, you look away and still see an image of the object. An example is when you still see the nighttime headlights of a car, even when your eyes have closed and the car has turned away. Another is when, after looking away from a light bulb or candle in the dark, you still see light in the shape of the bulb or candle.

Afterimages happen after the retina's photosensors (the rods and cones in your eyes) become oversaturated, or burned out, from staring at a particular color. This burning out is comparable to lifting weights in the weight room. After doing enough bench presses you lose your bench press strength and will be able to lift only lighter weights. Your muscles are burnt out, if only temporarily, from lifting big weight. Similarly, after staring at a large area of a single color, the eye's photosensors lose their strength for that color. If, afterwards, the eyes look at a blank piece of paper, the photosensors will be weak towards the previously stared at color but fresh and strong for detecting the other colors. This imbalance causes the mind to perceive the image (the afterimage), but in the color opposite to the original color. To the mind, the weakness towards one color means the presence of the opposite primary color is stronger. Quirky perhaps, but this is the way the brain works. If you are staring at a green image, the afterimage should be red. After staring at a yellow image, the afterimage should be blue. The mind sees afterimages in primary colors, so any non-primary color will be seen as the primary opposite.

Though they occur almost constantly, afterimages usually go unnoticed. Afterimages are best observed when focusing on a single color or object for a lengthy of time. However, in normal viewing, we view a wide range of objects and colors at once and our eyes are always moving around, the view constantly shifting. In these cases, the afterimages are minor and get lost in the visual shuffle. We barely if at all notice them.

Natural delay in processing light

If in the dark you pass a lit match in front of your face you will see a trail of light following the match. If you pass you hand quickly in front of your eyes in daylight, your hand will be a blur. Related to afterimages, this effect happens in part because your eyes and brain don't process light instantaneously. It takes a small fraction of a second for the eyes and mind to translate the light that enters the eyes into the mental image we see in our minds.

This effect, along with the afterimage and binocular vision, aids in making our blind spot disappearing. As our eyes naturally move around, there is a lingering of image that helps cover the blind spot.

The following shows examples of afterimages, and a few also involving the process delay.

If you stare up close for about a minute at the below color squares, then stare at the corresponding white space below, you may perceive the colors in reverse.

If you stare at the below circular design, you should see movement of some sort, such as pulsating, shifting and/or rotating. This is is caused by how the eyes and mind detect and interep the information. As your eyes naturally move, even if slightly, an afterimage follows with your eyes causing the appearance of movement that does not exist. The rotating black and white design was intentionally designed to play on the afterimage and other visual conceits. To the human mind, if any printed picture is going to move on the page, it will be this circular, rotating design.

The below is another design that often produces the appearance of movement when stared at-such as rotating, pulsating and/or shifting. Even though the image is stationary, it's difficult to not visually perceive it as stationary.

Binocular Vision

Humans have binocular vision, meaning that the single image we see in our mind is made from two different views-- one from each eye.

Our binocular vision gives at least two notable advantages. First, we have a wider field of view than if we had only one eye. The right can see further to the right and the left further to the left. The single vision in our mind shows more than either single eye can see.

A second advantage is the two views give us good, if not perfect, depth perception. People who are blind in one eye and animals with only one eye have worse depth perception than the average human. The mythical Cyclops might appear an unbeatable warrior, but a wily human opponent could take advantage of the monster's poor depth perception.

Triangularism and Calculating Depth

Binocular vision produces the perception of depth in a way similar to how triangularism measures length in applied mathematics. When looking at a distant point using only one view it is hard to impossible to measure the distance accurately. In applied mathematics, triangularism can accurately calculate this distance from point a to point b by creating an imaginary triangle. Trianglularism has long been used in the real world to measure distant objects, like islands and boats at sea and when surveying land.

Triangularism: From point a alone, it can be impossible to accurately calculate distance to point b. In the real world, point a could be you standing on land and point b an anchored boat out at sea. However, by taking measurements from point a, then taking a measurement from nearby point c (perhaps a walking distance away), then measuring the distance from point a and c, one can create an imaginary triangle that calculates the distance from point a to point b. It's just a matter calculating angles and doing the math.

Two eyes give the mind a similar two point view of an apple or house, and the mind uses these two views to help guestimate distance. This is mostly done subconsciously. You simply reach out and grab that pencil or penny or door knob or hanging ceiling fan string or stairway railing, no problem. When you wear an eye patch, you may discover it's more difficult to grab things on the first try.

The Hole In The Hand Illusion

This simple trick plays with your binocular vision to make it appear as if you have a hole in your hand. Roll a normal piece of 8x11" paper into a tube and place it next to your hand as shown in the following picture. With one eye look through the tube and with the other at your hand. With a little bit of shifting you should perceive what appears to be a large hole through your hand. Your mind takes the two distinct views to create one odd bizarre view.

The viewer would look through the tube with his left eye and at his right hand with his right eye

As you can see, you don't see physical reality but a translation of it

When you are look at a living room or bowl of apples or painting or mountain range, the image you see is not a direct representation of the objects. The image you see is a translation made by your eyes and mind. As demonstrated, binocularism (changing two views into one), afterimages (images created by the eyes/mind), unnoticed blind spots, inability to see colors in low light and countless other purely physiological occurrences ensure that our mental image is always different than the objects viewed.

Everything we perceive involves visual illusion.

What color is a red ball when the lights are turned off? Remember that red is part of the visible light spectrum.

If you believe that there is a God who purposely created animals, why do you think He gave humans such limited eyesight? Why do you believe He gave some animals better eyesight than humans?

Infrared viewers, such as night vision goggles, do not allow humans to see infrared light, but translate infrared light into visible light. We will never see infrared light, and can only guess how an infrared viewing animal perceives the light.

Humans categorize and label objects in part by visible colors. Many animals, flowers, gems and even humans are defined by their colors.

As defined by the American Kennel Club, a cairn terrier can come in all colors except white. If a cairn terrier is born white, it's not a cairn terrier. It's a West Highland Terrier, a different breed.

If we could see infrared and ultraviolet light our categorizations and names of objects, including terriers, would be different.

A mirror mirrors what is in front of it. If you place an apple two feet in front of the mirror, an identical looking apple will look as if it's the same distance behind, or into, the mirror. Curiously, if you use triangulation to measure the distance to the apple in the mirror, the apple will measure as being two feet behind the mirror. Both our eyes and scientific measurement say there is an apple two feet behind the mirror's surface.

If a human perceives a person in a magazine picture and a dog does not, which animal has the better perception? Humans often use as evidence of a dog's dimwittedness that the dog 'doesn't see' the human being on the television screen, when, of course, there isn't really a person on the screen. The dog is faulted for not seeing what isn't there.

Other Senses

Smell, taste, sound and touch effect your visual perception. For example, your visual perception of a pie shaped object may be confirmed, corrected or confused by the smell. You judge distance by sound-something is usually softer the further away it gets. In the dark, people typically feel about for walls, doors and tables. Echoes can fool you into misjudging location.

While humans depend mostly on sight, other animals depend more on other senses. The blood hound has worse than human eyesight, but uses its advanced sense of smell to find lost people that even trained police detectives cannot find. In these instances, the blood hound's non-seeing perception is more accurate than all of the detectives senses combined. This explains why many police departments have blood hounds on the staff.

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Faculty – Neuroscience

Our world-renowned faculty are committed to helping students develop professional competence in oral and written communication and gain the analytical thinking and logic skills necessary to succeed in the laboratory, the classroom and beyond.

The core faculty in the CLA neuroscience program are primarily responsible for teaching neuroscience courses in the program and for providing research mentorship to undergraduate neuroscience major and minor students and neuroscience masters students.

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The affiliated neuroscience faculty consists of faculty members from different departments/colleges who serve as mentors for undergraduate independent research studies and for Masters projects.

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Student Life – Neuroscience

Theres so much more to being a Temple University neuroscience degree student than what youll learn in the classroom! We encourage our students to get involved and make the most of their time here. Learn about the Nu Rho Psi Honor Society and the Undergraduate Neuroscience Society

The purpose of Nu Rho Psi is to:

The first and foremost benefit of Nu Rho Psi membership is the honor and recognition of academic excellence. Almost all graduate schools and employers ask for a list of honors. Membership in Nu Rho Psi is a way of building these credentials. Members receive membership certificates and lapel pins as an indications of the honor. Beyond this, Nu Rho Psi membership is a springboard for the networking of like-minded colleagues interested in the study of the brain. As the Society transitions to a regional structure over the next few years, there will be regional and national meetings where neuroscientists form around the country will gather to share scientific findings. News and information will be available to members via the Nu Rho Psi online newsletter.

Questions about joining the Temple University Chapter of Nu Rho Psi?

E-mail: NuRhoPsi.Temple@Gmail.com

Students who join UNS can take advantage of the following opportunities:

Executive Board:

Interested in joining? Contact one of our board members or complete an application (available in Weiss Hall, Office 638).

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Graduate – Neuroscience

The College of Liberal Arts graduate Neuroscience degree offerings include a masters of science in neuroscience and a neuroscience PhD specialization. You have three areas of study to choose from in the masters program. Learn more about the required Masters Project, careers in Neuroscience and how to apply. Contact us today to learn more about why Temple University is the right place for you to earn a neuroscience masters degree or PhD.

Our MS in Neuroscience: Systems, Behavior and Plasticity provides highly advanced training and faculty-mentored research in a rapidly evolving field with practical applications in careers ranging from health care to public policy and economics.

This innovative program was developed by top faculty from the Departments of Psychology, Physical Therapy, and Kinesiology, to help qualified students gain core expertise in specific areas of neuroscience including molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral neuroscience.

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There are three areas of study in the masters program:

The Specialization in Neuroscience is for PhD students interested in studying neuroscience. It is open to any graduate student enrolled in a PhD program at Temple. Graduate students are admitted to the program after they have been accepted into a Temple PhD program. Upon successful completion of their departmental and neuroscience specialization requirements (see below), students receive a PhD degree in the discipline represented by their department with a specialization in neuroscience. To receive a Specialization in Neuroscience a student must fulfill the following requirements:

Please visit the Neuroscience Graduate Admissions page to learn more about graduate program requirements, dates and deadlines and instructions on how to apply.

Students are required to work on a masters project for both semesters in the second year. Depending upon their career goals, students may opt to engage either in a laboratory-based research project or in a non-laboratory project. Those students who are motivated to join doctoral programs or are interested in research positions will likely gain by working independently on a neuroscientific investigation under the supervision of a faculty member that maintains an active neuroscience research program. The purpose of the project will be to not only train students in specific neuroscientific techniques, but also to train students to develop scientific and analytical approach towards a problem, formulate clear research questions, conduct experiment, and analyze/interpret data.

On the other hand, students who are not intending bench-level research upon graduation and are interested in non-research jobs (such as teaching, counseling, research administration, public policy etc.), may get engaged in a non-laboratory project of a similar scope. This may include activities such as conducting a literature review on a topic and presenting it to the audience, drafting a scope of work for a grant funding agency, or preparing a consulting proposal for a prospective client.

Because the brain is involved in every important human endeavor, an understanding of the brain and its functions opens career paths in multiple fields including medicine, psychology, law, engineering, education and public policy. Masters-level education in neuroscience will provide students with a wide range of career options including teacher/lecturer, research and teaching administrator, research associate at academic research institutes or private industries, biostatistician, medical or science writer, clinical data manager, public health administrator, environmental health safety officer, counselor, regulatory affairs specialist, and public policy strategist.

Please visit the Neuroscience Graduate Admissions page to learn more about graduate program requirements, dates and deadlines and instructions on how to apply. The application deadline is March 1, 2019.

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Tucson Neuroscience Research specializes in conducting clinical research studies (also called clinical trials) to test possible treatments for medical conditions. With many decades of collective staff experience, we are one of Arizonas premier independent clinical research centers.

Have you thought about participating in a clinical research study?

We are currently recruiting volunteers within the greater Tucsonarea for several ongoing studies. Study volunteers help us to gather important information in the development of future treatments that might manage, cure, or even prevent diseases.

If you are selected to join one of our studies, you will have continuous medical supervision for the entire time you are using the study medication or treatment. All examinations, tests, and medications or treatments are provided to you at no cost.

Contact us to see if you qualify

As a volunteer, your participation in a clinical trial not only helps provide valuable information about your medical condition, but can help many others as well.

To get started, please visit us at 6567 East Carondelet Drive, Ste. 305, Tucson, Arizona 85710. You can also complete and submit a volunteer sign-up formto begin the process. Our screening staff will be happy to answer any questions you might have about the process.

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3 Ways The Environment Shapes Human Behavior – Mutual …

Many scientific researches have shown an obvious fact, that the behavior of a human being is created by the environment. If genes predispose a certain behavior but the environment doesnt support it, then that behavior wont manifest, so in this case, genes arent important.

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The section ENVIRONMENT in the documentaryTROM (The Reality Of Me)shows how the environment shapes human beings behaviors via:

Dr. Gregory Forbes, recorded at TEDGlobal 2010:

We live in a remarkable time the age of genomics. Your genome is the entire sequence of your DNA. Your sequence and mine are slightly different. Thats why we look different. Ive got brown eyes you might have blue, or gray; but its not just skin-deep.

The headlines tell us that genes can give us scary diseases, maybe even shape our personality, or give us mental disorders. Our genes seem to have awesome power over our destinies, and yet, I would like to think that I am more than my genes.

Likewise, every connectome changes over time.

Its true; to some extent, they are programmed by your genes. But thats not the whole story, because there are signals: electrical signals, that travel along the branches of neurons, and chemical signals, that jump across from branch to branch. These signals are called neural activity. And theres a lot of evidence that neural activity is encoding our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, our mental experiences. And theres a lot of evidence that neural activity can cause your connections to change.

If you put those two facts together, it means that your experiences can change your connectome. And thats why every connectome is unique, even those of genetically identical twins. The connectome is where nature meets nurture. And it might be true that just the mere act of thinking can change your connectome; an idea that you may find empowering.

Think about the way you act, your facial expression, the values accepted by you, the way you talk, everything, and remember that they are a result of your environment.

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Male & Female Behaviors That Result From Environmental Conditioning

Louann Brizendine, neuropsychiatrist and author ofThe Female Brain(2006) andThe Male Brain(2010), recorded at Dominican University of California, March 31, 2010

The nature nurture debate is dead for the following reason: the brain is very, very malleable.

Were all born with male or female predispositions, and then well have hormones that increase that circuitry for behavior, which is what a hormone is supposed to do. A hormones job is to make us predisposed to certain behaviors.

However, the way were raised, for example, little boys: Studies have shown that little boys who were told theyre not supposed to touch something, they often will grab it and touch it, whereas a little girl can be given a verbal demand not to touch it.

Little boys worldwide are punished more frequently for transgressions. Little boys are told not to cry, that theyre supposed to man-up, right? Even at a young age, dads sometimes are very, very scared if their little boy is showing any version of effeminate behaviors.

For example, I remember flying coast to coast with a guy who sat next to me. He said his 18 month old son, when he saw his 4 year old sister open a present earlier that week, which was a purse, he said, Oh, can I have a purse too? And he said he found himself, like someone had kicked him in the stomach, and he just yelled at his eighteen month old son, No, boys dont have purses! He was reporting to me this event, and he felt so ashamed and embarrassed afterwards, because he realized that his little boy wasnt expressing anything about being effeminate or not.

So the way we raise little boys, and we raise little girls, our brain circuits are so malleable. For example, we werent born learning to play the piano, right? You do practice, practice, practice.

You can retrain brain circuits, to do a variety of things. All of our life, we are trained, gender trained, to be more one way or the other.

Males: facial expressions for example, when they measure them and put electrodes on them, and show them a grizzly photograph that is supposed to make you cringe and emotional, their facial expressions, versus females, actually showed more emotional response in the time before it becomes conscious. Then right after the one second level when it becomes conscious, their facial muscles start to freeze down for frowning or smiling. In females, facial muscles actually amplify, and the males go down. Scientists believe, the hypothesis is, that the males have been trained to suppress an emotional feeling.

There is no such thing as: bad, criminal, lazy, brilliant people, thieves or racists. Only people predisposed to such behavior. But if the environment doesnt trigger them, the behavior never manifests.

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Children Who Lived Isolated From Human Contact From A Very Young Age

The most extreme case is represented by feral children. A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.

Feral children lack the basic social skills which are normally learned in the process of enculturation. For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright and display a complete lack of interest in human activity around them.

Oxana Malaya began her life living with dogs, rejected by her mother and father. She somehow survived for six years, living wild, before being taken into care. There are few cases of feral children whove been able to fully compensate for the neglect theyve suffered.

Oxana is now 22, but her future still hangs in the balance. Have scientists learned enough from previous cases to rehabilitate?

For six years, Oxana Malaya spent her life, living in a kennel, with dogs. Totally abandoned by her mother and father, she was discovered, behaving more like an animal, than a human child.

For two centuries, wild children have been the object of fascinating study. Raised without love, or social interaction, wild (or feral) children pose the question: What is it that makes us human?

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Territorial Behavior Among Human Beings | Hunger For Culture

March 7, 1975

AIM AND INTRODUCTION:

The aim of the practical was to observe territorial behavior among human beings and explore it in relation to animals in the comparative psychological perspective. The general definition of a territory is a defended area. It has to be defended through actual aggression or the threat of it. Territoriality has been observed to exist among certain animal species like birds, insects, mammals and vertebrates. Therefore, a parallel with man has had to be established because territoriality has been seen to exist in man; both as an individual and a group.

The major characteristic of territoriality as observed by comparative psychologists like Lorenz, Tinbergen, and ethnologists like Eibl-Ebesfeldt, is that an animal must be aggressive towards conspecifics. Through studies and observations, the authors have come to the conclusion that the territorial behavior possesses several functions in the evolution and preservation of species. In general it has been suggested that territoriality saves the purposes of distributing or spreading the animals over a large area resulting in the proper utilization of feeding resources, to enable safe and undisturbed reproductive behavior, for example, territoriality in birds ensures that they do not build nests too close together. And a last function of territoriality is said to be reduction of aggression in the animal species which have a high level of it.

SUBJECTS: The subjects consisted of the University of Zambia students who read in the University library. Eight subjects were observed.

MATERIALS: The apparatus used in the experiment consisted of a pen and paper for recording the sitting arrangements and signs of territorial behavior of the subjects.

PROCEDURE: O represents Observer

S represents Subject

Initially, O goes into the library and sits on one of the tables. He notes sitting arrangements of Ss, spacing and objects which are possibly used for marking Ss territory. After a while, O moves to a table which has almost all the seats full and sits next to S and notes the reaction of S; moving chair, objects etc.

Then especially during a different time when there are many empty seats; 12 to 13 hours when many subjects go for lunch, O sits next or adjacent to a subject and notes his reaction.

RESULTS: The tables are made out of a combination of several smaller tables which provide a comfortable space for writing and reading for an individual student.

When a student sits down, he normally or always defines his territory by placing his books all over the rectangular spacing. This was confirmed in all the observations I made when the books are placed in this way, no other student can sit on the chair to read even if the owner of the territory goes away for a long time.

On 31st December 1974 at 9 hours, I was seated on a desk in the reference deck. Six students got their writing pads and apparently went away to attend class lectures. While they were away, three students came looking for a table where they could read. Each one of them came, looked around and went away to another deck. Despite the fact that the owners of the books were away, the three could not occupy their desks. From this observation, we can say that objects act as very strong definitions of territory for human beings.

On deck 14 (psychology) 23rd December 1974, I sat down to read beside a female student. Immediately I sat on the chair next to her, she pulled towards her the edges of books which were protruding into my space. This showed that human beings respect and recognize each others territory.

ISOLATED INCIDENTS AND OBSERVATIONS

Students who read in the library regularly, at least every day, tend to have a specific chair and table where they read from every day. It is as if they say; This is my space, I own it.

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On 14th February 1975, a Zambian female student stopped reading at 17 hours. She piled her books on the table, expecting to return and resume reading after supper. When she returned, the table was occupied by three Asian students. Her books had been moved to the middle of the table where it was difficult to determine whether she had previously sat on one of the chairs. With a hissing whisper, she asked one of the students whether he had moved the books. The student denied it. There was a hushed argument pointing of fingers; then the Asian male student rose violently but was held by the other two. At this point, the female student angrily got her books and walked out.

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During the first week of the beginning of my second year, I went into the library on the sociology deck. I put my books on one of the tables, sat and wrote for a while. Then I went to look for a book on the shelves. A first year male student arrived; he pushed aside my books and sat down to read. I was very angry. I went there and stared at him for a few seconds and hissed; You dont push away books when someone is already sitting there! I walked away and he seemed amazed. Apparently, he was not yet acquainted with the informal rules about marking ones space in the library.

DISCUSSION

The few observations made seem to confirm that people display territoriality although it lacks overt aggression as is the case with animals.

What purpose, if any, does territoriality save for the human being in such a place like the library? Biological functions are not very evident. People do not mate or show overt courtship behavior in the library and they do not obtain their food from it. Therefore, the only plausible explanation for man to display territoriality in places like the library, is that it is one of those behaviors which have lost their specific evolutionary functions and their remnants are perhaps in the process of degenerating into ritual behavior; i.e. it will no longer save its original biological function.

But one of the functions it could be still saving is to distribute or rather spread the readers over all the available space in the library. Presumably, man feels uncomfortable having limited breathing and elbow movements, when they are too close together.

Territoriality, the one displayed in libraries in particular seems to be an innate or inherited tendency. As in most vertebrates, we observe in man distinct territorial behavior. Individuals maintain distinct distances between themselves and others. Children develop a feeling for property. The expression of both tendencies seems to be based on a common mechanism. (Eibl-Ebesfeldt; 1971, P. 444)

The spacing which is induced by territoriality might be important for the propagation of the human species. This is suggested by an experiment in overcrowding in which animals showed serious behavioral pathologies and physiological malfunctioning. Calhoun (1956, 1962) conducted an experiment in which a colony of Norway rats were made to live in an overcrowded pen. Although the rats were allowed to roam in various compartments, they ended up living together in one pen. Calhoun termed this phenomenon pathological togetherness. The rats fertility was lowered and their life span was shortened. Mann sums up by saying; In mice, overcrowding in laboratory cages leads to abnormal sexual behavior, decreased reproductive and nursing capacities, and aborted pregnancies, deficient maternal care for the young and disrupted next building. (Mann, 1969, P. 17)

Although the analogy cannot be applied to the library situation, nevertheless, territoriality in humans in the library could be to the advantage of the species. For example some contagious diseases like sneezing and other more serious diseases are prevented from spreading due to the distances which human beings maintain between each other. The evidence from overcrowding rats could also explain the high incidence of crime and violence which prevails in overcrowded suburbs of cities.

An interesting area of further examination in the library is the observation in animals that Territories have been likened to elastic discs the more they are compressed, the more they resist further compression. (Manning; 1972, P. 99). In the library this could be tested by an observer or experimenter noticing that a table is already filled but puts an extra chair where there is supposed to be none as shown below.

If a chair is for example placed on either X, since the territories are further compressed, would A and B or A and D react with overt aggression? In this respect perhaps ethical values of the individual subjects would come into question. But however, the results would be interesting.

In contrast with the seemingly inhibited aggression in the library human territoriality, I report on the few observations made at Lachnver National Park during a field trip last December. The Kafue Leahwe was observed at the beginning of the establishment of territories. There was a herd of 10,000 Leahwe, females were moving in large herds while males were scattered around in distances of about fifteen meters apart. There was a fight nearly every five minutes. Chessing between males had a very high frequency and they were also constantly digging horns in the ground. In the 10 minutes we spent observing the last herd of about 1,000, six fights were observed between males and the last one lasted up to 10 minutes until a third male had to separate them to end the fight.

REFERENCES

Manning, A. W. G., An introduction to Animal behavior. (1972)

Mann, L. Social Psychology(1969)

Eibl-Ebesfeldt, Ethology(1970)

(The original document was written on March 7, 1975 when the author, now Mwizenge S. Tembo, was a Junior at University of Zambia majoring in Psychology and Sociology)

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#Track 1:Immunogenomics

Immunogenomics originally was framed by research supporting the hypothesis that cancer mutations generated novel peptides seen as non-self by the immune system. Neoantigens has been facilitated by the combination of specialized computational analyses, new sequencing technologies, and HLA binding predictions that evaluate somatic alterations in a cancer genome and interpret their ability to produce an immune-stimulatory peptide. The resulting information can characterize a tumors Neoantigens load, its cadre of infiltrating immune cell types, the T or B cell receptor repertoire, and direct the design of a personalized therapeutic.

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#Track 2:Veterinary Immunology & Immunopathology

Veterinary immunology is the study of all features of the immune system in animals. It is a division of biomedical science and associated to zoology and veterinary sciences. It is engrossed in how the immune system works, how vaccines thwart disease and why vaccines occasionally do not work and cause antagonistic responses. Every living creatureisconstantly presented with substances that are not fit for theirupbringing. Most living beings secure themselves against such substances in more than one way with physical barriers, forexample, orwith chemicals that repulse or slaughter invaders. Creatures with spines, called vertebrates, have these sorts of generaldefensive instruments;however, they additionally have a more progressed defensive framework called the immune system. The invulnerable framework is aperplexing systemof organs containing cells that perceive outside substances in the body and devastate them. It secures vertebrates against pathogens, or irresistible specialists, for example, infections, microscopic organisms, growths, and different parasites. The human immune system is the most complex. Although there are numerous possibly unsafe pathogens, nopathogencan invade or attack all organisms because a pathogen's ability to cause harm requires asusceptible victim, and not all creatures are powerless to similar pathogens. For example, the infection that causes AIDS in people does notcontaminatecreatures, for example, dogs, cats, and mice. Correspondingly, people are not defenseless to the infections that cause canine distemper,cat leukemia, andmousepox.

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#Track 3: Vaccines & Immunotherapy

The vaccineis abiologicalpreparation that enhances resistance to specific infection. It contains particular operators thatlooklike an illness bringing about themicroorganismas well as animates body's safe framework to perceive the outside specialists.A vaccineis dead orinactivatedlife forms or refined items gotten from them. Entire creatureantibodiescleaned macromolecules as vaccines,recombinant antibodies, DNA antibodies. The insusceptible framework perceives vaccine specialists as remote, devastates them, and"recollects that"them.

Immunotherapy is a standout amongst the most energizing ranges ofnew disclosures and medicinesfor various sorts of atumor. Seeing how the insusceptible framework functionsareopening the ways togrownew medicines that are changing the way we consider and treat growth. The vast majority acceptingimmunotherapiesare dealt with in particular malignancy focuses and a large portion of them are selected inclinical trials. This may change as more trials are finished and more medications are affirmed by theFood and Drug Administration(FDA) to treat various types of malignancy.

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#Track 4:Immunotoxicology & Molecular Biomarkers

Immunotoxicologyis the investigation of immune dysfunction resulting from exposure of an organism to a xenobiotic.Immunotoxicologyis moderately new interdisciplinary logical field concentrated on recognizable proof and investigation of the compoundand, in a more extensive sense, additionally physical and organic elements of nature which can bring about undesirable and normally accidentalimmunomodulation.The immune dysfunction may take the form ofimmunosuppression,sensitivity,autoimmunity, andincendiary based illnesses. Insusceptible System assumes a basic part in host imperviousness to sickness and additionally in typicalhomeostasisof a living being; recognizable proof ofimmunotoxichazard is huge in the assurance of human, creature and wildlife health. In addition, immunotoxicology likewise researches the properties of new immunotherapeutic pharmacological items arranged by means ofrecombinant DNA methods(interleukins,interferons,development variables, hostile toirritation drugs,neuroendocrine hormones,neuropeptideswith respect to theirimmunotoxic potentialand security of their utilization.

Abiomarkeris atrademarkthat can be unbiasedly measured as a marker of typical organic procedures, pathogenic procedures or apharmacological reactionto a restorative mediation. These are utilized for some reasons including malady conclusion and guess, forecast and appraisal oftreatment reaction. Biomarkers can be trademarknatural propertiesor particles that can be recognized and measured in parts of the body like the blood or tissue. They may show either ordinary or infectedprocedurein the body. Biomarkers can be particular cells, particles, orgenes, geneitems, catalysts, or hormones

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#Track 5:Immunoresearch & Immunotechnology

Immunologyisworried aboutthe utilization ofimmunological responsesfor the determination, avoidance, and treatment of various infections. It is firmly identified with therapeutic and veterinary microbiology, the study of disease transmission, physiology andPathophysiology, organic chemistry, and endocrinology.Viral Immunologyand the immunology of parasitic infections are autonomous branches of commonsense immunology. Immunology concentrates theantigenic creationof microorganisms, attributes of thesafetyprocedures in different sorts of contaminations, andnonspecific types of Imperviousnessto the causative operators of irresistible infections. Investigation of the immunological procedures and the immunological reproduction of the living being created byNon-infectious Antigensof the exogenousand endogenous starting point and the advancement of strategies for controlling unfavorably susceptible sicknesses are winding up noticeably progressively imperative. Different branches of clinical immunology are likewise growing seriously. These incorporate radiation immunology, which concentrates the disturbance of immunological reactivity by illumination, andImmunohematology, which researches the antigenic piece of platelets and the causes and instrument of advancement of immunological harm to the circulatory framework. Immunology is creating techniques forImmunoprophylaxis,Immunotherapy, andImmunodiagnostics.

Immunologic Researchspeaks to an interesting medium for the introduction, translation, and elucidation of complex logical information. Data is displayed as interpretive combination surveys,unique researcharticles, symposia, publications, and hypothetical expositions. The extent of scope stretches out to cell immunology,immunogenetics,sub-atomic and auxiliary immunology,immunoregulation and autoimmunity,immunopathology,tumor immunology, have safeguard andmicrobial resistance, including viral immunology,immunohematology,mucosal invulnerability, supplement, transplantation immunology, clinical immunology, neuroimmunology,immunoendocrinology, immunotoxicology, translational immunology, and history of immunology.

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#Track 6: Immunological Clinical Practices &Trials

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AnImmunological Clinicaltrial is a unique research program designed to cultivate a collaborative environment that allows basic and translational immunologists to work side-by-side with clinicians.Clinical trial & Practicesare always designed to gain some knowledge about something not yet well-known or proven. A person may volunteer to participate in a clinical study. A physician may recommend a patient to consider volunteering forspecific study participation, as part of the patient therapeutic treatment options. Clinical trials are highly regulated and are conducted following strict scientific standards in order to protect patients and to produce meaningful results.

The clinical trial allows accelerating the bench-to-bedside transition of innovative immunotherapies, with much attention given to critical diseases which areknown to relapseor is refractive to conventional treatments currently available. Many of the novel immunotherapy approaches, which originated from basic science research by the clinical trial and practices, are now being explored as new treatment modalities in patients, with a significant number advancing through clinical trials towards FDA approval.

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#Track 7: Pediatrics Immunology

A child suffering from allergies or different issues with his insusceptible frameworkis eludedasPediatric Immunology. Childs immune system battles againstinfections.On the off chance that the child hashypersensitivities,their resistant framework wrongly responds to things that are normally innocuous. Pet dander, dust, tidy, form spores, bug stings, nourishment, and solutions are cases of such things. This response may make their body react tomedical issues, for example, asthma,roughage fever, hives,dermatitis(a rash), or an exceptionally extreme and unordinary response calledanaphylaxis. Once in a while, if your childs invulnerable framework is not working right, he may experience the ill effects of successive, serious, or potentiallyunprecedented diseases. Cases of such contaminations aresinusitis(aggravation of at least one of the sinuses),pneumonia(disease of the lung),thrush(a growth contamination in the mouth), andabscesses(accumulations of discharge encompassed by kindled tissue) that continue returning.

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#Track 8: Immunosenescence

A decline in immune competence is well recognized in the elderly. Aged people show a decline in many aspects of protective immunity including a tendency to producelower-affinity antibodies, a failure to generate long-lasting immunity to vaccination and a loss ofdelayed-type hypersensitivityto antigens previously encountered in life. Bacterial and viral diseases such as tuberculosis and herpes zoster (shingles), respectively, are found much more frequently in the elderly compared to young adults.Septicemia(infectious microbes in the bloodstream) is also more common in the elderly. Pneumonia is more prevalent and more often fatal and other viral and bacterial infections are more common in older people leading to an increase in morbidity and mortality. This decline inimmune competenceis not solely a result of a defective immune system, as it is also a result of changes in the endocrine and nervous systems, as well as nutritional and other factors including the general state of health of the older individual.

Malignancies are seen much more frequently in older people and while many of these may be related toinappropriate DNA translational events, a defective immune system may also be responsible since there is an association between immune deficiency and increased malignancy. Defects in all compartments of the immune system have been reported in the elderly. While studies are often contradictory, reliable data indicate that defects develop inT and B cell immunityas well as in the phagocytic component of immunity. Increased NK cell numbers and decreased T cell function is also a feature of aging.IL-6 and IL-10production by monocytes is increased with aging as well as the pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1 and TNF. MHC molecules are expressed at a lower density on a variety of cells and fewer T cells expressing CD28, important for T cell signaling, are found in the elderly. Antibody responses are usually of lower affinity andautoantibodiesare found much more frequently. Hemopoiesis is impaired with fewer progenitor cells produced.Thymic involutionis well established in the elderly with fewer T cells entering the vascular pool and hence secondary lymphoid organs.AICD and apoptosisare increased. Age-related changes in hormonal and neurotransmitter function may also have an impact on immune function and may determinemorbidity, mortality, and longevity.

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#Track 9: Cancer & Tumor Immunology

The immune system is the body'sinitialline of barrier against most illnesses andirresistible intruders. Seeing how the immune system functionsor does not workagainst growth is an essential concentration of theCancer ImmunologyProgram. Specialists are decoding the fundamental science of safe reactions with the objective of growing newsafe treatment approachesand enhancing existing ones.The Hugeconcentrate is on consolidated methodologies that expand upon disclosures inmalignancyhereditary qualities (changes to DNA),epigenetics(concoction modifications to the earth of DNA) andimmunology. Late revelations utilize new discoveries about how the immune system capacities to make collaboration and enhance the viability of surgery, disease antibodies, medicate treatments and radiation treatment. Accuracy, or customized, medication is utilized to control the best invulnerable ways to deal with the correct patients, and this energizing work is promptingdependable reactionsin numerous growths. Eventually, scientists hope to unravel why insusceptible treatments work for a few patients and not others, enrolling the body's own particular safeguards against for all intents and purposes each sort of growth.

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#Track 10:Allergies & Hypersensitivity

Allergies represent TYPE I responses as per the Gell and Coombs grouping. Most are brought about by IgEANTIBODIESwhich are fit for the official toFc-receptorsfor IgE on tissueMAST CELLS. Cross-connecting of these layers bound IgE's by particular antigen brings about pole cellDEGRANULATION; this procedure dischargesHISTAMINEand an assortment of other effector molecules, which thus brings about the bunch side effects of sensitivity. (rash, feed fever, asthma and so on.)Passive cutaneous hypersensitivity(PCA) in the guinea pig and thePrausnitz-Kstner (P-K) skin responsein people give models to understanding the basic component of unfavorably susceptible responses. Administration of sensitivities starts with allergen shirking and incorporates the utilization of an assortment of medications and allergen-particularDESENSITIZATION.

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#Track 11:Clinical Immunology: Current & Future Trends

Clinical Immunology has developed in the course of recent decades from atranscendent research centerbase to a joined clinical and lab claim to fame. Theclinical workof Immunologists is to a great extent out-patient based and includes essentialimmunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, immune system rheumatic ailment and systemic vasculitis (mutually with Rheumatologists), joint pediatric centers for kids withimmunodeficiency and sensitivityandimmunoglobulinimbuement facilities for patients with immunizer lack. On the research center front,Consultant Immunologistsare in charge of coordinating demonstrative immunology benefits and play out an extensive variety of obligations including clinical contact, elucidation and approval of results,quality confirmation and test improvement.

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#Track 12 : Lymph-proliferative Disorders

Lymphoproliferativedisorders are an arrangement of scatters described by the abnormal proliferation of lymphocytes into amonoclonal lymphocytosis. The two noteworthy sorts of lymphocytes are B cells and T cells, which are gotten from pluripotenthematopoietic foundational microorganismsin the bone marrow. People who have some kind of brokenness with their immune system are powerless to build up a lymphoproliferative disorder since when any of the various control purposes of theresistant frameworkend up noticeably useless, immunodeficiency orderegulationof lymphocytes will probably happen. There are a few acquired quality transformations that have been distinguished to bring aboutlymphoproliferative disorder; in any case, there are additionally gained and iatrogenic causes.

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#Track 13:Immunodermatology

Immunodermatologythinks about skin as an organ ofinsusceptibilityin wellbeing and malady. A few territories have extraordinary consideration, for example, photograph immunology (impacts of UV light on skin guard), incendiary illnesses, for example, Hidradenitis suppurativa, unfavorably susceptible contact dermatitis and atopic dermatitis, probably immune system skin ailments, for example,vitiligo and psoriasis, lastly the immunology of microbial skin ailments, for example, retrovirus contaminations and sickness. New treatments being developed for theimmunomodulationof basic immunological skin sicknesses incorporate biologicals gone for killing TNF-alfa andchemokine receptor inhibitors.

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#Track 14:Immunohematology

Immunohematologyis the study of the immunology and genetics of blood cell antigens, blood groups and specific blood proteins(such as complement) and antibodies esp. important in blood banking and transfusion medicine.

Immunohematology is more commonly known as "blood banking" or blood biology.

This is the field of laboratory medicine dealing with preparing blood components and blood for transfusion as well a theselection of compatible and appropriate components for transfusion. Individuals may become immunized to red blood cells due to previous exposure to red blood cells(RBCs) of other people, most commonly throughtransfusion or pregnancy. Our children basically receive immunizations which leads to form antibodies against theimmunizing material,such as tetanus. If they are again exposed to the organism which causes tetanus, the antibodies will destroy them before they can cause infection. In a similar way, red blood cells have specific structures on their surface calledantigens. If an individual is pregnant with a fetus or transfused with blood that possesses structures which the recipient or mother does not have, this may induce the individual to form antibodies. These antibodies may then destroy red blood cells(RBCs) which possess the antigen if additional sessions of transfusions are needed. That is why all blood banks will "screen" potential blood recipients forunexpected antibodiesand they will then select blood which lacks the offending antigen. The formation of these antibodies is an unusual occurrence, occurring in approximately 0.1-3

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#Track 15:Humoral & Cellular Immunology

Our immune system distinguishes two categories of foreign substances. One category consists ofantigens (foreign substances)that are freely circulating in the body. These include molecules, viruses, and foreign cells. The Second Category consists of self-cells that displayaberrant MHC(Major Histocompatibility Complex) proteins. These aberrant MHC proteins can originate from antigens that have been engulfed and broken down (exogenous antigens) or from tumor cells andvirusinfectedthat are actively synthesizing foreign proteins (endogenous antigens).

Depending on the kind of foreign invasion, two different immune responses occur:

The Humoral Immunology orHumoral response(or antibodymediated response) involves B cells that pathogens or recognize antigens that are circulating in the lymph or blood (humor is a medieval term for body fluid). In this, the antigens bind to B cells which lead to Interleukins or helper T cells stimulate B cells.

The Cellular Immunology orCellmediated responseinvolves mostly T-cells and responds to any cell that displays aberrant MHC markers, including cells invaded by pathogens, tumor cells, or transplanted cells.Self-cells or Antigen Presenting Cells(APCs) displaying foreign antigens bind to T cells.

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#Track 16:Neuroimmunology

The investigation of the connection betweenour centralnervous system(the brain and spinal string) and our immune system. Neuroimmunology adds to the advancementof newpharmacological medicationsfor a few neurological conditions. The immune system and the sensory system keep up broad correspondence, including "hardwiring" of thoughtful and parasympathetic nerves to lymphoid organs.Neurotransmitters, for example, acetylcholine, norepinephrine, vasoactive intestinal peptide, substanceP, and histamine adjust the insusceptibleaction.Neuroendocrine hormones, for example,corticotrophin-discharging element,leptin, and alpha-melanocyte empowering hormone manage cytokine adjust. The immune system adjusts brain action, including body temperature, rest and bolstering conducts. Particles, for example, the significant histocompatibility complex not just direct T cells to immunogenic molecules held in its separated additionally regulate improvement of neuronal associations. Neurobiologists and immunologists areinvestigatingnormal thoughts like the neurotransmitter to comprehend properties.

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#Track 17:Mucosal Immunology

Themucosal surfacesof the body have a higher danger of contamination because of their cooperative energy with the outside condition.Mucosal immunologyraises those parts of the resistant framework that shield the body from contamination. It gives threemain functionssecures themucous film against disease, keeping the take-up of antigens,microorganisms, and other outside materials, and directing the creature's insusceptible reaction to that material. The mucosalinsusceptible frameworkis containedmechanical (bodily fluid), concoction and cell elements.

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9thMolecular Immunology Conferences,Immunogenetics Congress, March 08-09,2018,London, UK; 12thInternationalAllergy and Asthma Conferences,Clinical Immunology Conferences, Oct 1-2, 2018, Moscow, Russia; 3rdInternationalAutoimmunity Conferences, November 26-27, 2018, Dublin, Ireland; 15thInternationalImmunology Conferences2018, July 05-07, 2018,Vienna, Austria; 9thEuropean Immunology Conference, June 14-16, 2018,Rome, Italy; 22ndEdition of InternationalImmunology ConferencesandInfectious Diseases Conferences, May 10-11, 2018,Frankfurt, Germany; 2ndClinical Oncology Conferences, Molecular Diagnostics Conferences, June 11-13, 2018, Dublin, Ireland

#Track 18:Autoimmune & Inflammatory Diseases

The immune system has the capacity to mount animmune responseto virtually all molecules and/or cells. Although the capacity to respond to self-antigen is present in all of us, in most instances such responses result in tolerance, indicating that mechanisms must exist to prevent orsubdue autoimmune responses. Moreover, auto-reactiveT and B cells, as well asautoantibodies, are found in people who do not have autoimmune diseases, demonstrating that immunological auto-reactivity alone is not sufficient for the development of the disease. The mechanisms currently thought to prevent/dampen autoimmune responses include inactivation or deletion ofautoreactive B and T cells, active suppression by cells or cytokines, idiotype or anti-idiotype interactions, and the immunosuppressive adrenal hormones, the glucocorticoids. When dampening mechanisms fail or are overridden, a response directed against self-antigen can occur, resulting inautoimmune diseasesthat range from those which areorgan-specific(diabetes and thyroiditis) to those which are systemic (non-organ specific) such assystemic lupus erythematosusandrheumatoid arthritis.

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3rdInternationalAutoimmunity Conferences, November 26-27, 2018, Dublin, Ireland; 15thInternationalImmunology Conferences2018, July 05-07, 2018,Vienna, Austria; 9thEuropean Immunology Conference, June 14-16, 2018,Rome, Italy; 12thInternationalAllergy and Asthma Conferences,Clinical Immunology Conferences, Oct 1-2, 2018, Moscow, Russia; 22ndEdition of InternationalImmunology ConferencesandInfectious Diseases Conferences, May 10-11, 2018,Frankfurt, Germany; 9thMolecular Immunology Conferences,Immunogenetics Congress, March 08-09,2018,London, UK

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