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The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Eli E. Sercarz

    1. Department of Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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  2. Franco Celada

    1. Transplantation Immunology Service, Hospital S. Martino, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

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  3. N. Avrion Mitchison

    1. Tumour Immunology Unit, University College London, London, England

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  4. Tomio Tada

    1. Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries H: (ASIH, volume 23)

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Semiotics and Immunology: An Introduction

    1. On Semiotics and Immunology

      • Umberto Eco
      Pages 3-15

    2. A Nonrestrictive Semiotics of the Immune System

      • Patrizia Violi
      Pages 17-23

    3. Possible contribution of biosemiotics to the problem of communication among lymphocyts

      • Thure von Uexküll
      Pages 25-33

    4. A Note on Some Basic Concepts of the Sign

      • Constance Jordan
      Pages 35-39

    5. Introduction to Terms Relevant to Immunological Recognition

      • Kristian Hannestad
      Pages 41-50

  4. General Aspects of Communication within the Immune System

    1. Contexts in the cellular communications: How the mobile cells recognize right partner cells to talk with?

      • Richard K. Gershan, Tomio Tada
      Pages 83-104

    2. Structure and Direction of Message in the Immune Network and Circuits

      • Constantin A. Bona
      Pages 105-117

    3. Modes of Communication Within the Immune System: Action or Reaction?

      • Patrick M. Flood
      Pages 119-129

  5. Intermezzo

    1. Of Words, Genes and Music

      • Susumu Ohno
      Pages 131-147

  6. Organizational Patterns, and the Origin of Meaning

    1. Structural Coupling and the Origin of Meaning in a Simple Cellular Automation

      • Francisco J. Varela
      Pages 151-161

    2. The Control of T Lymphocyte Activity May Involve Elements of Semiosis

      • Klaus Eichmann
      Pages 163-168

    3. Digital Processing and Immuno-Regulatory Circuits

      • Leonore A. Herzenberg
      Pages 169-170

  7. Self-Referential and Autonomous Nature of Immune System

    1. Observer, Immune System and their Respective Objects (About Self — Non-Self Discrimination)

      • F. Jacquemart, A. Coutinho
      Pages 173-181

    2. General Principles of Complex Biological Systems Operating in Immunology. Self-Responses Might Define the Boundaries of the Developing Immune System

      • C. Martínez-A., A. de la Hera, M. A. R. Marcos, C. Márquez, M. Alvarez de Mon, M. L. Toribio
      Pages 183-191

    3. Towards Cognitive Immunology : G.O.D. is Infinite

      • Nelson M. Vaz
      Pages 193-198

    4. Parasites and the Immune Response: Crossing the Signals

      • Rona J. Mogil
      Pages 199-206
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About this book

This volume contains the contributions to the workshop "The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in The Immune System" which took place at "11 Ciocco" in the hills north of Lucca, Italy, September ~-12, 1986. The workshop was the first meeting of what we hope will be a broad consideration of communication among lymphocytes, and focused on the new interdisciplinary branch of biological sciences, immunosemiotics. It is in the realm of the possible, if not the probable, that in the future a number of scientists larger than the thirty present at 11 Ciocco will find immunosemiotics to fill a need in scientific thinking and a gap between biology and the humanities. This might lead to growth and flourishing of the branch, and in this case the first conference and this first book could be blessed by the impalpable qual ity of becoming "historical", if in an admittedly 1 imited sense. Just in case this should happen the organizers/editors think it wise to set the record straight at this particular time, about the sequen~e of events and circumstances that crystallized the archeology of the "11 Liocco" gathering. They feel a sort of obligation to this endeavor: it has happened all too often that innocent historians have been left in utter confusion by the careless founders of new religions, schisms, revolutions, et cetera, who simply forget to jot down the facts before the whirlwind of time engulfs them in its fog.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Eli E. Sercarz

  • Transplantation Immunology Service, Hospital S. Martino, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

    Franco Celada

  • Tumour Immunology Unit, University College London, London, England

    N. Avrion Mitchison

  • Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomio Tada

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System

  • Editors: Eli E. Sercarz, Franco Celada, N. Avrion Mitchison, Tomio Tada

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries H:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73145-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73147-1Published: 16 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73145-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1010-8793

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 335

  • Topics: Immunology, Cell Biology, Allergology

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