Clinical Laboratory Immunology: the Future

The clinical immunology laboratory of the future.

The clinical immunology laboratory assumes the responsibility of providing a complete array of analytical measurements for the diagnosis and management of patients with dysfunction of the humoral (antibody, complement) and cellular (T/B cells, phagocyte) immune system. To identify trends in the activities of the clinical immunology laboratory of the future, I first define the current status of ...

Clinical laboratory immunology: an indispensable player in laboratory medicine.

OBJECTIVES Clinical laboratory immunology affects practically every aspect of medicine. Accordingly, appropriately trained, board-certified clinical laboratory immunologists are key contributors to the diagnosis and management of patients with various immune-mediated conditions. This review highlights the availability of postdoctoral level training programs for clinical laboratory immunology an...

The future of clinical laboratory genomics.

The laboratory mouse and wild immunology.

The laboratory mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, has been the workhorse of the very successful laboratory study of mammalian immunology. These studies--discovering how the mammalian immune system can work--have allowed the development of the field of wild immunology that is seeking to understand how the immune responses of wild animals contributes to animals' fitness. Remarkably, there have hardl...

Clinical Immunology

The purpose of this mini-review is to update the nonspecialist reader on the basic immunological mechanisms which underlie an effective immune response and the clinical disorders which results when the processes are deficient or disordered. The basic science description is, of necessity limited in scope and detail. Further explanation of the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in i...