The Mucosal Immune System: Proceedings of a Seminar in the EEC Programme of Coordination of Agricultural Research on Protection of the Young Animal Ag (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Opening Session.- Opening Remarks.- Mucosal Immunity.- Session I: IgA Secretion and Transport.- Comparative Aspects of Secretory Immunity: The Transport of Heterologous IgA from Blood to Bile in Experimental Animals.- Discussion.- Binding, Uptake and Processing of Polymeric IgA by Cultured Rat Hepatocytes.- Discussion.- Epithelial Transport of Human Secretory Immunoglobulins.- Discussion.- Session II: Hypersensitivity Reactions in the Gut.- Induction and Expression of Mucosal Cell Mediated Immunity.- Discussion.- Stimulation and Suppression of IgE Antibodies by Antigens Presented to Mucosal Surfaces.- Discussion.- Food Antigen Handling and Immune Complex Formation in Healthy and Allergic Individuals.- Discussion.- An Animal Model of Anaphylactic Peptic Ulceration - A New Approach to Ulcer Disease in Humans?.- Discussion.- Gastrointestinal Hypersensitivity in the Preruminant Calf.- Discussion.- Altered Immune Function Associated with Dietary Factors.- Discussion.- Session III: Immune Response to Micro-Organisms and Protection.- Passive Immunity Against Enteric Viral Infections of Piglets.- Discussion.- Induction of an Interferon Activity in the Nasal Mucus of Calves by Administration of Inactivated IBR Virus and Levamisole.- Discussion.- Kinetics of Intestinal Antibody Development in Calves after Infection with Bovine Rotavirus.- Discussion.- Immune Response to Subunit Vaccines Against Enveloped Viruses.- Discussion.- Importance of Local Antibody in Resistance to Mycoplasma Infections of the Respiratory Tract.- The Mammary Gland Immune Response and Its Relationship to Intestinal Antigenic Exposure.- Discussion.- The Immune Response Following Oral Vaccination with E. Coli.- Discussion.- The Role of Mucus Secretions in the Protection of the Gastrointestinal Mucosa.- Discussion.- Mucus Secretion in the Gut, Its Relationship to the Immune Response in Nippostrongylus-Infected Rats.- Discussion.- Closing Session.- Immunoglobulin Serum Levels and Population of Intestinal IgA Plasma Cells in Normal and Immuno-Deficient (Nude - Neonatally Mu Suppressed - Neonatally Delta Suppressed) Rats.- The Experimental Basis for Oral Immunisation Against Cholera.- Short Communication.- Short Communication.- Discussion.- Short Communication.- Discussion.- Summary.- Poster Presentations.- Homing of Lymphocytes after Oral Vaccination of the Sow.- Immune Mechanisms in the Respiratory Tract.- Changes of Systemic Hypersensitivity Due to Enterally Applied Antigen.- Aerogenic Vaccination with Live Bacteria - Immune Reactions of Gnotobiotic Piglets Against Erysipelas.- List of Participants.