PHYSIOLOGY OF THE THYMUS
- Discussion Leader: Roland Scollay (Palo Alto, CA)
- Polly Matzinger (Bethesda, MD) - "Tolerance and the four D's:distress, damage, destruction and death"
- Karen Bulloch (New York, NY) - "Perspectives on the role of calcitonin-gene-related peptide in regional regulation of immune function"
- Melanie Vacchio (Bethesda, MD) - "A novel role for glucocorticoids in thymocyte development"
PERSPECTIVES ON PEPTIDE-LYMPHOCYTE INTERACTIONS
- Discussion Leader & Speaker: Luciano Adorini (Milano, Italia) - "Perspectives of antigen-based intervention in autoimmune diseases"
- Cobi J. Heijnen (Utrecht, NL) - "Potential role of the HPA axis, the sympathetic nervous system and immune system-derived neuropeptides in autoimmunity"
- Angelika M. Vollmar (München, Germany) - "Natriuretic peptides - modulators of thymus function?"
IMMUNITY IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
- Discussion Leader & Speaker: Tamas Bartfai (Stockholm, Sweden) - "Subchronic glucocorticoid treatment and its effets on fever and central cytokine levels"
- France Haour (Paris, France) - "Brain IL-1 and IL-!ß receptor expression in infectious and autoimmune diseases"
- Jean E. Merrill (Richmond, CA) - "Free radicals may mediate oligodendrocyte and myelin damage in multiple sclerosis"
GUT IMMUNITY
- Discussion Leader: Edward J. Goetzl (San Francisco, CA)
- Sue O'Dorisio (Columbus, OH) - "Neuropeptides as messengers in a neuroimmune axis"
- Leo Lefrancois (Farmington, CT) - "The influence of the thymus on intestinal T-cell development"
- John Bienenstock (Hamilton, Canada) - "Purposeful communication between mast cells and the peripheral nervous system"
GONADAL AND REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY
- Discussion Leader: Donald Dudley (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Colin L. Stewart (Nutley, NJ) -
- Gérard Chaouat (Paris, France) - "Immunosuppressive components mediating T-cell unresponsiveness at the foeto-maternal interface"
- Charles Loke (Cambridge, UK) - "Immunology of the human endometrium"
PANCREAS AND INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES
- Discussion Leader: Noel K. MacLaren (Gainesville, FL)
- Anne Cooke (Cambridge, UK) - "Genetic and environmental factors modifying insulin-dependent diabetes in NOD mice"
- Dale Greiner (Worcester, MA) - "The role of the thymus in the generation of autoreactive and regulatory T-cells in BB rats"
- Charles Thivolet (Lyon, France) - "Antigen therapy in autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus"
- Constantin Polychronakos (Montréal, Canada) - "Pathophysiologic mechanisms of non-HLA genetic susceptibility to pancreatic ß-cell autoimmunity""
THYROID AND RELATED AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
- Discussion Leader: Terry F. Davies (New York, NY)
- Terry F. Davies (New York, NY)
- Ralf Paschke (Leipzig, Germany) - "Humoral pathogenesis of thyroid autoimmunity and related disorders"
- Sandra M. McLachlan (San Francisco, CA) - "Thyroid autoantibodies; immunoglobulin genes, epitopes and role in antigen presentation"
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND THE HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSIAL AXIS
- Discussion Leader: Keith E. Kelley (Urbana-Champaign, IL)
- Shlomo Melmed (Los Angeles, CA) - "Leukemia inhibitory factor regulation of propiomelanocortin (POMC) gene transcription"
- Errol B. de Souza (San Diego, CA) - "Novel interleukin-1 receptors and related proteins"
- Vincent Goffin (Paris, France) - "Prolactin receptor signal transduction and analysis of phenotypes associated with prolactin receptor gene disruption in mice"
IMMUNE-CORTICOTROPE AXIS INTERACTIONS
- Discussion Leader: Catherine Rivier (San Diego, CA)
- George P. Chrousos (Bethesda, MD) - "Central and peripheral roles of corticotropin-releasing hormone in immunity and inflammation"
- Fred J. Tilders (Amsterdam, NL) - "Immune influences on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis"
- Ashley Grossman (London, UK) - Communication within the hypothalamus by cytokines and gases"
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