Description: Immunotoxicology: the merger of immunology and toxicology (D.A. Lawrence). Overview of the immune system (W.O. Weigle). T-cell development (A.E. Silverstone). B-cell development (K.A. Dorshkind). Natural killer cells (R.J. Smialowicz). Phagocytes (D.L. Laskin, J.D. Laskin). Lymphoid tissue architecture and pathological influences of toxicants (J.G. Vos, C.F. Kuper, H.-J. Schuurmand). Pulmonary immunology (D.E. Bice). Mucosal immunology (S.W. Burchiel, D.R. Davila). Skin immunology (S.E. Ullrich). Neuroimmunology (V.M. Sanders). The immunology of pregnancy (L.J. Guilbert, M.I.G. Horet). Leukocyte trafficking (M.A. Jutila). Antigen processing and presentation (S.K. Pierce, P.H. Shafer). Lymphocyte Antigen Receptor and Coreceptor Regulation of Tyrosine Kinases and Phosphatases: Effects of Oxidative Stress on Receptor Functions (J.A. Ledbetter, G.L. Schieven). Signal transduction pathways in B lymphocytes (R.J. Noelle). T cell regulatory functions (M.J. McCabe Jr). The regulation of B cell activation through cogante interactions with T helper cells and the actions of T cell-dervied soluble mediators (E.C. Snow). Regulation of transcription by immunotoxicants (B. Freed, L. Geiselhart). Antibody-mediated hypersensitivity (M.H. Karol, C. Graham). Chemically induced allergy and autoimmunity: what do T cells react against? (P. Grein, E. Gleichmann, C.F. Shaw III). Hypersensitivity reactions in the lung (J.F. Regal). Contact hypersensitivity (I. Kimber). Autoimmune models (L. Pelletier, S. Ramanathan, P. Druet). Environmental and drug-induced autoimmune diseases of humans (N.R. Rose, P.P. Caturegli). Aging and the immune system (N.A. Wade). Immunotoxicology of cancer and prospects for its correction (J.W. Hadden). Immunosuppressive drug and toxicant effects on transplant recipients (S.E. Hughes, S.A. Gruber). Immunotoxicology of recombinant DNA-derived Therapeutic proteins (G.L. Warner, H.G. Haggerty). Cytotoxic T cells (N.I. Kerkvliet, L.B. Steppan). Stress and immune function (J.N. Carlson). Immunomodulation by toxicant-induced stress proteins (M.A. Lynes). Immunotoxicological methods and applications: animal models (M.I. Luster, P.P. Simeonova, D.R. Germolec, A. Bruccoleri).

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