Summary of National Meeting of the Society for Leukocyte Biology (27th) (AReticuloendothelial Society)

摘要

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Leukocyte Biology and the 12thInternational RES Congress was held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 14-18th, 1990. The theme of the meeting was cellular and cytokine networks in tissue immunity. The following areas were discussed in detail: (a) cytokines in the regulation of hematopoetic and immune cell proliferation: molecular cloning and characterization of interleukins 9 and 11, application of antisense probes in regulation of cell proliferation, and suppressive effects of IL-1, TNF-a, and IL-la; (b) composition and function of tissue-specific immune networks in the skin, brain, lung, and gut with special emphasis on infection and autoimmune disease; (c) neuroendocrine networks in the central nervous system during infection and inflammatory brain disease; (d) novel inflammatory cytokines with chemotactic and cell activation properties that include IL-8.