This volume explores immune cell receptors that are used in the detection of microbes, either by binding directly to non-self molecules or through indirectly sensing microbe-associated cellular disturbances. The chapters in this book cover methods for studying receptor-ligand in…
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Immunology has made significant progress in the past decade, driven forward by rapidly advancing technology and a renewed interest in the vast realm of innate immunity. The receptors that mediate these functions are at the front lines of both protective and regulative roles of t…
(Publisher-supplied data) This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2006, held in Oeiras, Portugal in September 2006. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 s…
ICARIS 2006 is the?fth instance of a series of conferences dedicated to the comprehension and the exploitation of immunological principles through their translation into computational terms. All scienti?c disciplines carrying a name that begins with "arti?cial" (followed by "lif…
This second edition expands upon and updates the vital research covered in its predecessor, by presenting state-of-the-art multidisciplinary and systems-oriented approaches to complex diseases arising from and driven by the acute inflammatory response. The chapters in this volum…
