Laboratory techniques of veterinary clinical immunology: A review

A short review on immunology of Leishmaniasis

Among the countless examples of interspecific interactions in biology, surely non-could be more interesting than which established between host animals and their specific parasites. The members of the genus Leishmania are peculiar obligate intracellular protozoans in that they proliferate in the enzyme rich phagolysosomes, an organelle which is essential component of all defence reactions of an...

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 ...

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Farm animals remain at risk of endemic, exotic and newly emerging viruses. Vaccination is often promoted as the best possible solution, and yet for many pathogens, either there are no appropriate vaccines or those that are available are far from ideal. A complementary approach to disease control may be to identify genes and chromosomal regions that underlie genetic variation in disease resistan...

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Annexins are Ca2+-dependent phospholipid-binding proteins. They are ubiquitous in living organisms and are involved in many cellular processes. In the course of studying Edwardsiella ictaluri pathogenesis in channel catfish, we identified that six annexin expressed sequence tags (A1, A2, A4, A5, A6 and A11) were up-regulated at the early stage of infection. In this study, we cloned and characte...