Comparative Immunology: Sipunculid Bactericidal Responses

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

The arms race between hosts and pathogens (and other non-self) drives the molecular diversification of immune response genes in the host. Over long periods of evolutionary time, many different defense strategies havebeenemployedbyawidevariety of invertebrates.We reviewherepenaeidins and crustins in crustaceans, the allorecognition system encoded by fuhc, fester and Uncle fester in a colonial tu...

Comparative Immunology in Pediatrics

In pediatric clinics interest is conventionally centered about problems peculiar to infancy or childhood. Obviously this point of view is necessary for the adequate care of patients and it has been the stimulus for many important studies. A more liberal view could perhaps be taken in the case of certain specific infectious diseases which occur throughout life, and which exhibit varying clinical...

Comparative Oncology and Comparative Tumor Immunology

Comparative oncology is a branch of comparative pathology that is relatively new biomedical discipline. The need for a comparative research into tumors across different groups of living beings has arisen from a relatively old notion that most of multicellular organisms may develop tumors. This apparently very simple fact indicate the possible nature of tumor growth, which can be associated with...

Comparative Immunology-Based Approaches To Veterinary Diseases

Comparative study of bactericidal activities of six different disinfectants.

Bactericidal activities of six commonly used disinfectants against scven different species of clinically isolatcd hacteria, mainly glucose-nonfermentative Gram-negative hacilli, were compared. In terms of mean values of the minimum hactericidal concentration (M BC), henzethonium chloride showed the highest efficacy, followed in order hy chlorhexidine gluconate, alkyldiaminoethylglycine hydrochl...