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2010 APS Conference: Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease

Conference

Start Time:25 Aug 2010

End Time:28 Aug 2010

Where:Westin Westminster hotel, Westminster, United Kingdom

During the past several years, there has been an increasing awareness that inflammation contributes to diseases such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and heart failure, but the precise mechanisms whereby this occurs are unknown. Moreover, many cardiovascular physiologists use the term “inflammation” in a non-specific fashion, or only in reference to macrophage infiltration of certain tissues. We believe that it would be very informative to most cardiovascular physiologists to receive didactic instruction to allow understanding of this topic and how to pursue studies in this topic in a sophisticated fashion.
The goals and objectives of this conference are to review the fundamentals of innate immunity and antigen presentation and how various cardiovascular diseases could affect these functions. In addition, the conference will review the fundamentals of adaptive immunity, and in particular discuss T-cell function and why many facets of this might be altered in diseases like atherosclerosis and hypertension. Function of various T cells subtypes, such as CD4+, CD8+, T regulatory cells and TH17 cells will be highlighted.
The conference will review methods for study of sophisticated study of the immune system in cardiovascular disease, including fluorescent cell sorting, appropriate measurement of cytokines, and use of transgenic mice, studies of antigen presentation and studies of T cell activation. Furthermore, there will be state-of-the-art presentations regarding the role of inflammation, and in particular innate and adaptive immunity in cardiovascular disease.
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