International Benchmarking of US Immunology Research (1999) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
1. Introduction
1. Introduction
Pages 17-20
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 17... ...
The normal Unctions of the immune system reject transplanted cells, tissues, and organs. Pharmaceutical and biotechnological interventions to dampen immune responses in autoimmunity, inflammation, and transplantation are important segments of the pharmaceutical industry and conical medicine, as are attempts to amplify or augment components of the immune system to help eliminate infections, cancers, and parasites that have evaded inununosurveillance.
|
From page 18... ...
Study of homogeneous lymphocyte populations, for example, leads to research in many aspects of signal transduction, wherein cell-surface receptor engagement signals cells to divide, differentiate, or die. It can be argued that we know more about vertebrate developmental immunology than about any other developmental system, including the first isolated stem cell in any system.
|
From page 19... ...
International collaboration in the different subfields of immunology has facilitated exchanges in inflation that have enabled exciting breakthroughs to be made. Factors that have contributed to international collaboration have been the training of young scientists from around the world in graduate institutions in the United States, training of young US scientists in foreign immunology centers, internationally attended scientific conferences, the increasing facility of electronic forms of conunun~cation, and the use of English as the standard tongue of communication.
|
From page 20... ...
The panel strove to maintain an international perspective as it collected and analyzed the data for this report. The panel assessed the current position of the United States relative to leadership in four subfields of immunology, and the benchmarking results themselves are presented in Chapter 2 of this report.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.