Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0061297

Zusammenfassung

The lymphatic system is pivotal for many physiological functions including infection and diseases. The project aims to test the hypothesis that the spatial arrangement of lymph nodes within an organism allows the lymphatic system to operate as a multi-layered information-processing network. Challenging the system by retroviral infection should reveal how individual lymph nodes process information contained within the lymph and determine functional association networks. Successful implementation of the proposed techniques in combination with advanced bioinformatical analysis will allow ...