Parasite Immunology

A framework for ontology-based question answering with application to parasite immunology

BACKGROUND Large quantities of biomedical data are being produced at a rapid pace for a variety of organisms. With ontologies proliferating, data is increasingly being stored using the RDF data model and queried using RDF based querying languages. While existing systems facilitate the querying in various ways, the scientist must map the question in his or her mind to the interface used by the s...

Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology.

In the face of continuous threats from parasites, hosts have evolved an elaborate series of preventative and controlling measures - the immune system - in order to reduce the fitness costs of parasitism. However, these measures do have associated costs. Viewing an individual's immune response to parasites as being subject to optimization in the face of other demands offers potential insights in...

Immunology

Immunology.

The pathological changes involved in the immunological lung diseases of the bronchiolar region are reviewed. Next, the possibility that BOOP and DPB, two diseases whose causes are presently unknown, are caused by immune responses, is discussed.

Immunology