Histophysiology of the Immune System - The Life History, Organization, and Interactions of Its Cell Populations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

The 9th International Conference on Lymphatic Tissues and Germinal Centres in Immune Reactions was held in Oslo, 9-14 August, 1987. These conferen ces, by the regular devotees just referred to as the germinal centre con ferences or GCC, have been held regularly at roughly three-year intervals since 1966. The credo of these conferences is "in vivo veritas", signifying that investigating components, like molecules and cells, only gives partial truth. The components must ultimately be explored in their natural con text, to see how they interact with other parts and are integrated to a whole. To the biologist it is obvious that the world must be investigated at many different levels of organization. At each level the patterns observed represent just some of many possible ways of putting together the elements of the lower levels. These patterns are not predetermined, but the results of evolution, i.e. of a history in which stochastic processes play a major role. The organic world can therefore not be torn apart and then reconstructed from basic principles alone. This realization is often expressed as the whole being more than the sum of its parts.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 237
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	1988
Editors:	Sigbjorn Fossum • Bent Rolstad
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 47mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	926
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-5537-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Immunology > General
LSN:	1-4684-5537-0
Barcode:	9781468455373

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