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Other views - other concepts
 | A good point to start looking at other
ideas is in an article by Zlatko Dembic in
The Immunologist. This article
starts with an exposition of Zlatko's "Integrity" theory and goes on to
explore other, significant, extant perceptions about the function of the
immune system. (Nb, this web site has now closed - anyone wanting to see this
article will have to ask me as it is not indexed in Index Medicus databases.)
The British Library can supply a copy at cost. |
| Other points to look for "concept"
material is in the following two journal editions:
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Seminars in Immunology - June
2000 issue (the web editor - FrontPage - keeps altering this address and
stops it working as a link. Copy the address at the bottom of this page and
paste it in your browser; make sure that you copy both lines as one.
Alternatively, click the link to Seminars in Immunology and go to Volume 12,
Issue 3 (June 2000). |
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Immunological Reviews - Volume 159 - A
postscript on the immunological self. |
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| The "Sense of self" web debate at
HMS
Beagle (no longer archived there but visible
here) |
| Particular authors or groups of authors
with an interest in models of immune function.
| The Cohn/Langman view (see
Scand J Immunol) (##) |
| Coutinho - see Seminars in Immunology above. |
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Charles Janaway and the "stranger/pattern
recognition receptor" hypothesis. (##) |
| Theoretical immunology sites (note that
many tend to concentrate on mathematical modelling rather than on
teleological models - models that attribute a purpose to the system, eg,
self/non-self discrimination, "danger" stimulation, "stranger" stimulation).
Donald Forsdyke keeps a list of many of these (end of file) together with his
own work in this area.
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Arlette Mercae, in her thesis, provides a detailed (and, to my mind,
insightful) appraisal of the turbulence that has characterised immune system
theories over the last ten to fifteen years
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| The Scandinavian J Immunology is running a series of
(usually free access) discussion papers on models in immunology. The latest (but
one) is from
Colin Anderson and this appeared in the April 2006 edition of this
journal. Matzinger, Cohn, Zinkernagel and Hengartner made earlier
contributions (cited in this article). |
Who is citing me?
Remarkably few people. I got a transitory mention in the
"Sense of self" debate. Otherwise this file lists
the sum total of those who have cited my papers.
## Note that both
Rod Langman and
Charlie Janeway died recently
This page was last updated on
26/10/06
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