Developmental Immunology

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...

Immunology

Immunology.

The pathological changes involved in the immunological lung diseases of the bronchiolar region are reviewed. Next, the possibility that BOOP and DPB, two diseases whose causes are presently unknown, are caused by immune responses, is discussed.

Immunology

Immunology and Pathology: Poultry Immunology and Diseases

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 648 Testosterone exposure alters embryonic bursal gene expression in chicken lines selected for differential antibody response. R. L. Taylor, Jr.*1, T. Burks1, C. Timmerman2, P. B. Siegel3, and C. M. Ashwell2, 1University of New Hampshire, Durham, 2North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 3Virgi...