[Normal and abnormal cell and antibody mediated immunoreactions. Part II: The monocyte-macrophage system as a central part of cell interactions and changes in cell compartments for clinical diagnostics (author's transl)].
The immune response is a result not of one but many cellular activities. Macrophages proved to be the central part of cooperation as elucidated by in vitro lymphocyte-macrophage clusters and by the three dimensional branching lattice-work of reticular cells in vivo. Presenting antigen, inducing helper cells, producing antibodies, and activating suppressor cells is picked up briefly. Summarizing table on changing immune cell quantities in immunoproliferative and immunodeficiency syndromes is given.
D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002450:Cell Communication; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D008211:Lymphocyte Cooperation; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D009000:Monocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D051381:Rats; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D050378:T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / Q000276:immunology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000166:cytology
D000954:Antigens, Surface
Neue Aspekte zur Physiologie und Pathologie Zell- und Antikörper-vermittelter Immunreaktionen. Teil II: Das Monozyten-Makrophagen-System als zentrale Schaltstelle von Immunreaktionen und Zellmarkerdiagnostik.