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Informationen zum Autor Narinder Kumar Mehra is an Indian immunologist, head of the department of transplant immunology and immunogenetics of the SRL Limited, Gurgaon. He is a former dean of research and holds the ICMR Dr. C.G. Pandit National Chair at AIIMS. Klappentext "The 5th Congress of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania was held on March 14-17, 2012 in New Delhi, India in conjunction with the 39th Annual Conference of the Indian Immunology Society"--Page v. Zusammenfassung Immunology has rapidly evolved as a field! in particular! by moving beyond merely understanding the basic mechanisms of the immune system to developing diagnostic and clinical applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis A brief history of the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) v Narinder K. Mehra Immunology and world health: key contributions from the global community 1 G. J. V. Nossal The life of regulatory T cells 8 Iris K. Gratz, Michael D. Rosenblum, and Abul K. Abbas Cross-reactive humoral responses to influenza and their implications for a universal vaccine 13 Christopher Chiu, Jens Wrammert, Gui-Mei Li, Megan McCausland, Patrick C. Wilson, and Rafi Ahmed The dual role of biomarkers for understanding basic principles and devising novel intervention strategies in tuberculosis 22 January Weiner 3rd, Jeroen Maertzdorf, and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann Clinical relevance of antibody development in renal transplantation 30 Narinder Mehra, Jamshaid Siddiqui, Ajay Baranwal, Sanjeev Goswami, and Gurvinder Kaur Th2-type innate immune responses mediated by natural helper cells 43 Shigeo Koyasu and Kazuyo Moro A unique vaccine for control of fertility and therapy of advanced-stage terminal cancers ectopically expressing human chorionic gonadotropin 50 G. P. Talwar Immunology of neuromyelitis optica: a T cell-B cell collaboration 57 Meike Mitsdoerffer, Vijay Kuchroo, and Thomas Korn Regulation of Toll-like receptor signaling pathways in innate immune responses 67 Cheng Quian and Xuetao Cao Best Oral Presentation Winners TAP expression level in tumor cells defines the nature and processing of MHC class I peptides for recognition by tumor-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes 75 Faten El Hage, Aurélie Durgeau, and Fathia Mami-Chouaib Proinflammatory cytokines contribute to development and function of regulatory T cells in type 1 diabetes 81 Helen E. Thomas, Kate L. Graham, Jonathan Chee, Ranjeny Thomas, Thomas W. Kay, and Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy Development of novel genetic cancer vaccines based on membrane-attached ß2 microglobulin 87 Gal Cafri, Alon Margalit, Esther Tzehoval, Lea Eisenbach, and Gideon Gross Genomic evaluation of HLA-DR3+ haplotypes associated with type 1 diabetes 91 Neeraj Kumar, Gurvinder Kaur, Nikhil Tandon, Uma Kanga, and Narinder Mehra PPE2 protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may inhibit nitric oxide in activated macrophages 97 Khalid Hussain Bhat, Arghya Das, Aparna Srikantam, and Sangita Mukhopadhyay 102 Corrigendum for Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 2012.1274: 86-91 103 Erratum for Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 2012. 1275: 54-62 ...