The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System

Section I. Semiotics and Immunology: An Introduction.- On Semiotics and Immunology.- A Nonrestrictive Semiotics of the Immune System.- Possible Contribution of Biosemiotics to the Problem of Communication Among Lymphocytes.- A Note on Some Basic Concepts of the Sign.- to Terms Relevant to Immunological Recognition.- Section II. Conceptual Debt of Semiotics to Immunology.- Signs and Codes in Immunology.- Semiosis for the Immune System But Not the Immune Response or What Can Be Learned About Language by Studying the Immune System?.- Does the Human Mind Use a Logic of Signs Developed by Lymphocytes 108 Years Ago?.- Section III. General Aspects of Communication Within the Immune System.- Contexts in the Cellular Communications: How the Mobile Cells Recognize Right Partner Cells to Talk With?.- Structure and Direction of Message in the Immune Network and Circuits.- Modes of Communication Within the Immune System: Action or Reaction?.- Section IV. Intermezzo.- Of Words, Genes and Music.- Section V. Organizational Patterns, and the Origin of Meaning.- Structural Coupling and the Origin of Meaning in a Simple Cellular Automation.- The Control of T Lymphocyte Activity May Involve Elements of Semiosis.- Digital Processing and Immuno-Regulatory Circuits.- Section VI. Self-Referential and Autonomous Nature of Immune System.- Observer, Immune System and Their Respective Objects (About Self — Non-Self Discrimination).- General Principles of Complex Biological Systems Operating in Immunology. Self-Response Might Define the Boundaries of the Developing Immune System.- Towards Cognitive Immunology: G.O.D. is Infinite.- Parasites and the Immune Response: Crossing the Signals.- Section VII. The Creation of Signs and the Language of Immune Interaction.- Grammars, Machines, andImmunoregulatory Cell Interactions. An Exercise in Immunosemiotics.- Is There a Unique Language in the Immunoregulatory System?.- Recognition of Syngeneic Forms of L-Chain V-Region Peptides by T Helper Cells Suggests that B Cell Antigen Receptors are Processed and Reutilized in Cognate T-B Interaction.- Section VIII. Cellular Connectivity and Suppression.- Regulatory T Cell Function, Antigen Recognition, and an Immunological Decision Point.- On I-J, a Network Centre Pole and AIDS.- Immune Suppression: An Integral Property of the Immune System?.- Section IX. Choices and Decisions.- Signs and Meaning in the Study of the Immune and Higher Nervous System.- Whither the Immune Response? Factors Directing the Response to Humoral or Cell-Mediated Immunity.- Immunoschismatics: Who is Guilty of Original Antigenic Sin?.- Epitypic-Idiotypic Dominance as an Evolutionary Answer to the Intercellular Communication Problem.