Proceedings of the Second Symposium Lyon, France, June 27 30, 1983

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I. The Inflammatory Response And Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Induction and Control of Acute Phase Reactant Synthesis -- Use of Immunomorphological Methods and Hemolytic Plaque Tests to Investigate the Synthesis and Secretion of Plasma Proteins by the Liver Cells During the Acute Inflammatory Reaction -- Progress in Plasma Proteins: Recent Findings on the Structure of Ceruloplasmin -- Recent Findings on the Isoelectric Points of Human C-Reactive Protein -- SAA is a more Sensitive Marker for Chronic Inflammatory Disease than C-Reactive Protein or ?1-Acid Glycoprotein -- Elastase-?1 Proteinase Inhibitor Complex (E-?1PI) and C-Reactive Protein (CRP): Early Indicators of Inflammatory Processes -- Human Kallikrein-Kininogen-Kinins (KKK) System and Acute- Phase Reactant Proteins (APRP) in Humans Undergoing Extracorporeal Circulation (ECC) -- Effect of Non Sterodial Anti-Inflammatory Drug (Niflumique Acide) on Acute Phase Protein Response -- Transcortin Activities, Cortisol and Progesterone in Pathological Sera: Inflammation, Septic Shock, Renal and Cardiac Diseases -- Measurement of Human High Molecular Weight Kininogen (HMW-K) by Laser Nephelometry -- Section II. Biological Roles Of Acute Phase Reactant Proteins -- Functions of Acute Phase Proteins in the Inflammatory Response -- Interaction of the Acute Phase Reactants ?1-Acid Glycoprotein, C-Reactive Protein and Serum Amyloid P-Component with Platelets and the Coagulation System -- Monoclonal Antibodies as Probes of Complement Function -- Modulation of Formation of the C3 Amplification Convertase of Human Complement by Acute Phase Proteins -- Materno-Trophoblastic Relationship in Normal Human Pregnancy and Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion -- Chemotactic Factors in the Airspaces that may Modulate Inflammation -- Section III. Protease Anti-Protease Interactions And Lung Diseases -- Human ?1-Antichymotrypsin: Purification, Properties and Reactions with some Serine Proteases -- Alpha1-Antitrypsin-Protease Interactions: The Biological Aspect -- On the Interaction Between Human Liver Cathepsin L and the two Cysteine Proteinases Inhibitors Present in Human Serum -- Modulation of Human Lymphocyte Responses by ?1 -Antitrypsin and ?2-Macroglobulin -- Mediators of Inflammation in Inflammatory Alveolitis -- Idiophathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Multiparametric Evaluation of Alveolar Lymphocyte and Macrophage Activation -- The Alpha, Proteinase Inhibitor of the Lower Respiratory Tract. Effect of Cigarette Smoking -- Collagenolytic Enzymes and Fibrosis of the Lung -- Elastolytic Activities and Proteinase Inhibitors in Sputum from Patients with Cystic Fibrosis -- Serum Derived Proteins and Antibacterial Proteins in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum -- Alveolar Fibronectin and Interstitial Lung Diseases -- Sarcoidosis: IgG, ?2 Microglobulin and Evolutivity -- ?1-Proteinase Inhibitor in Meconium from Healthy Infants and Infants with Cystic Fibrosis -- Qualitative Analysis of Proteins of Alveolar Fluid: A Study by Ultra-Thin Layer Immunoelectrophoresis and Electrofocusing -- Protease-Antiprotease Imbalance in Lung Diseases -- Section IV. Inflammation And Articular Diseases -- The Acute Phase Response in Connective Tissue Disease -- The GLA-Containing Protein of Bone -- Role of an Acute Phase Reactant, Retroviral gp70, in Murine SLE -- Study of 8 Marker Proteins of Inflammation in Synovial Fluid and Serum of Patients with Joint Diseases -- Fibronectin in Arthropathies -- Section V. Inflammatory Diseases Of Nervous System -- Multiple Sclerosis: Clues for a Pathogenesis -- Immunoglobulins in Neuropathology -- Cellular Inflammatory Response in Cerebrospinal Fluids -- Evaluation of CSF Lymphocyte Subsets Using the OKT Series of Monoclonal Antibodies (OKT3+, OKT4+, OKT8+) in Various Neurological Diseases -- Cytological Study and Protein Profile in Cerebrospinal Fluid, Before and During Treatment of Neurosyphilis -- Cerebrospinal Fluid Cytology and Protein Parameters in 219