title: Future view and development of immunology: exploring the immunology based on Chinese medicine and culture.
abstract: The immunologically mediated disease is a big family which affects many people in the world, since the cures are not yet available for most immune diseases, the patients face a lifetime of illness and treatment. Chinese medicine inspires us to develop new methods for the treatment of immune diseases. Previous researches of immune system have revealed that an immune network exists. The immune system is like a complex highway; if we travel on these highways, we must have a map to avoid travelling in the wrong direction. Drawing the map of immune network will provide new tools for us to look directly at the basis of the immune system.
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, 3400, Germany.
authors.forename: Xiao-shan
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Ning-hua
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000486:Allergy and Immunology / Q000639:trends*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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