Dendritic defence

Manipulation of dendritic cells for host defence against intracellular infections.

Dendritic cells (DCs) are an important innate immune cell type which is the bridge between innate and adaptive immunity. Mounting experimental evidence suggests that manipulating DCs represents a powerful means to enhance host defence against intracellular infectious diseases. We have developed several strategies to manipulate DCs either in vivo or in vitro for the purpose of enhancing the effe...

Medical Defence

Medical Defence

concerns us all, for with it may be closely bound up our future prosperity and happiness, our professional reputation, even our professional existence. I propose to draw on my experiences and give you some impressions gained from a good many years' service now, on the Council of the Medical Defence Union. Most people know, no doubt, that that is not the only society which is concerned with such...

RMA defence

information system (CCIS) will be an integrated, networked information communication and processing system interconnecting human operators, intelligent computing systems, distributed sensor systems, and piloted and autonomous platforms. Military units, sensors, weapons and communications will have to be capable of rapid force projection to counter various threats, as well as of performing surpr...

in defence of influence ? 323 In defence of influence ?

(L1) C causes E iff C stands in the ancestral of influence to E. (L2) C influences E iff (i) C and E are actual distinct events and (ii) there is a substantial range of C1, C2, ... of different not-toodistant alterations of C and a range E1, E2, of alterations of E, at least some of which differ, such that if C1 had occurred, E1 would have occurred, if C2 had occurred, E2 would have occurred an...