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Regulatory pathways in immunity and infectious disease

ReferenceJRI08152
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Dr Jean Langhorne
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Margaret Dallman, Professor Gordon Dougan
Institution Imperial College London
DepartmentBiological Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 21,816
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 13/02/1997
End date 13/07/1997
Duration5 months

Abstract

T-cell responses will be analysed in a variety of different clinically relevant models of allergy, transplantation, mucosal vaccination and infectious diseases. These studies will include characterisation of CD4 and CD8 T-cells in in vivo and in vitro systems involving adoptive transfer, flow cytometry, cell cycle and cytokine measurements. In addition, the fine specificity of the T-cell response to defined antigens of the malaria parasite and the house dust mite will be investigated in order to determine important antigenic epitopes and to enable design of altered peptide ligands for the downregulation of specific immune responses. The signalling and co-stimulation which give rise to modulation of these responses will be determined.

Summary

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Committee Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative Joint Equipment Research Initiative 1996 (JE1) [1996]
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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