Lymphoid Organogenesis: Proceedings of the Workshop held at the Basel Institute for Immunology 5th–6th November 1999

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Progenitor Cells for Cartilage, Bone, Fat and Stroma....Pages 3-11
Investigating the Genetic Control of Stem Cell Behavior....Pages 13-19
Precursor B Cells from Pax-5 -deficient mice — Stem Cells for Macrophages, Granulocytes, Osteoclasts, Dendritic Cells, Natural Killer Cells, Thymocytes and T Cells....Pages 21-26
Insertional Mutagenesis as a Route to Identifying Genes Involved in Self Renewal of Haemopoietic Stem Cells....Pages 27-34
The Helix-Loop-Helix Inhibitor Id2 and Cell Differentiation Control....Pages 35-41
Role of β1 Integrin for Hemato-Lymphopoiesis in Mouse Development....Pages 43-50
The Ikaros Family and the Development of Early Intraembryonic Hematopoietic Stem Cells....Pages 51-58
Function of Cytokines in Lymphocyte Development....Pages 59-65
Re-evaluation of B Lymphocyte Lineage Differentiation Schemes....Pages 67-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Growth Factors Regulating Lymphatic Vessels....Pages 75-82
Hemangioblastic Precursors in the Avian Embryo....Pages 83-90
Cloning of JAM-2 and JAM-3: an Emerging Junctional Adhesion Molecular Family....Pages 91-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Thymus Epithelial Cell Reaggregate Grafts....Pages 101-108
A Novel Anti-Ep-CAM Antibody to Analyze the Organization of Thymic Medulla in Autoimmunity....Pages 109-117
Genetic Dissection of Thymus Development....Pages 119-124
Developing Thymocytes Organize Thymic Microenvironments....Pages 125-132
The Role of Mesenchyme in Thymus Development....Pages 133-137
Making Central T-Cell Tolerance Efficient: Thymic Stromal Cells Sample Distinct Self-Antigen Pools....Pages 139-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
 T Cell Activation and Polarization by DC1 and DC2 ....Pages 149-159
ILT Receptors at the Interface Between Lymphoid and Myeloid Cells....Pages 161-166
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Functional Subsets of Memory T Cells Identified by CCR7 Expression....Pages 167-171
Functional Organization of Secondary Lymphoid Organs by the Chemokine System....Pages 173-179
The Cluster of ABCD Chemokines which Organizes T Cell-Dependent B Cell Responses....Pages 181-189
Affinity Maturation in Ectopic Germinal Centers....Pages 191-195
Precursors to Neonatal Lymph Nodes: LTβ + CD45 + CD4 + CD3 − Cells are Found in Fetal Liver....Pages 197-201
The Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor and Lymphotoxin in Lymphoid Organ Development....Pages 203-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-218