title: Immune networks: getting on to the real thing.
abstract: After some ten years of faltering development, the network approach in immunology is finally heading toward steady ground. At a recent international workshop (*), experimentalists and theoreticians discussed some of the latest developments, including an impressive array of novel results and applications to fundamental properties of biological immune networks: connectivity, patterns of dynamic activity, ontogenesis, and tolerance.
authors.affiliation: CREA-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Varela
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coutinho
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007107:Immune System / Q000502:physiology*; D007108:Immune Tolerance / Q000502:physiology; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes; D007156:Immunologic Memory / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008954:Models, Biological
chemical_list: D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes