A reminder of the goals of Bionet.Immunology as established in 1992

[forsdyke]

The Bionet.immunology Newsgroup was voted on in June 1992 with 102 votes
for and none against. The following is the initial charter:
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Topics of interest would be:

Mechanism of self/not-self discrimination
Evolution and role of MHC polymorphism
Two signal hypotheses
Education of T cells
Education of B cells
T cell and B cell cooperation
G0/G1 switch to activate ICCs (immunologically competent cells)
Mechanisms of ICC deletion or suppression
T cell receptors
B cell receptors
Lymphokines
Signal transduction pathways
Complement
Parasite strategies to avoid the immune response
Why does a placental mammal not reject the fetal "graft"
Relationship of heat-shock response to intracellular self
discrimination
Mechanism of action of cyclosporine
The acute phase response
Role of fever in infections- positive or negative?
Etc.

Sincerely, Donald Forsdyke, Discussion Leader.
http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/theorimm.htm