Math-Sci Seminar

Speaker: Ahmet Gül, M.D, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul University, Istanbul

Title:  Inflammation: Friend or Foe


Date: Thu 14 Dec, 2006
Time: 16:45
Place: Science Building, Room Z42


Abstract:

Inflammation is a physiological process that helps to protect the
integrity of the body. A group of complex cellular and humoral
interactions aims to detect, recognize, isolate and remove the
foreign or dangerous insults. However, depending on the site and
intensity of the inflammatory reaction, these processes may also
result in tissue damage, and there are many acute and chronic
disorders caused by uncontrolled or dysregulated inflammatory
reactions. This talk will focus on two inflammatory diseases which
are common in Turkey, Behçet’s disease and familial Mediterranean
fever (FMF), and will summarize the studies aiming to understand
their shared inflammatory pathways and to describe therapeutic
targets.

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