Any professional concerned with immunology will be interested in this book dedicated to the memory of Milan Hasek, former director of the Prague Institute of Experimental Biology and Genetics. Prof. Hasek was a congenial scientist and most amiable person - a personal friend of almost all leading immunologists around the world. He was displaced from his post of director in 1970, yet had a lasting impact upon his students and the group known as the Prague School of Immunogenetics. The topics covered in the contributions range from tolerance, immune network, and immunogenetics to the immunology of bacterial and viral infections. They are written by 27 of Prof. Hasek's former co-workers who emigrated to western countries around or after 1968 and became well-known and distinguished scientists in the field. The papers include their personal reflections of the Prague Institute, their impressions upon arriving abroad and their interesting experimental work since then. The book also provides a complete bibliography of their publications after leaving Czechoslovakia.

Milan Hasek: In Memoriam

Once upon a time
An imposing stature
It took a few years
My old friend
Tolerance, Transplantation and Immune Network
From Horses to Mice: Graft Rejection and Tolerance
Tolerance and the Immune Network. T Cells Reactive to the Variable Domains of Immunoglobulins
Milan Hasek, Lymphokines and Retroviruses
Genetic Requirements for Interactions Between Cells for Murine Islet Allograft Rejection. Class I and Class II Antigens in Mouse Islet Rejection
Chicken Major Histocompatibility Complex and Its Role in Disease
Tolerance, the Thymus, and H-Y
Autologous Mixed Lymphocyte Culture: Immunoregulatory Aspects
Immunogenetics (MHC)
Mickey, Hugo, and Eve: A Study in the Evolution of the Major Histocompatibility Complex
From Histocompatibility to Cancer
HLA Antigens and Matching for Kidney Transplantation
HLA Subtypes
Zeroing in on the H-2 Complex
Of Men and Mice
Individual Differences Among Syngeneic Mice in Immune Response to Alloantigens and Modified Self-MHC-Antigens
Immunology and Cytology in Bacterial, Viral and Tumor Diseases
Immunological Analysis of Mycobacterial Disease
Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infections
From Serology of the Chicken MHC to Polymorphism of Malaria Antigen Genes
Virus-Induced Neutropenia
Tumor Immunotherapy
Radiation-Enhanced Oncogene Expression
Oncogenes: A Pathologist's View
Natural Killer Cells: Odyssey from Laboratory Artifact to Clinical Reality
Allergy to Drugs and Other Chemicals Diagnosed by the Presence of Specific Memory Cells in Human Blood
Contribution of Cytogenetics to Cancer Research: Endometrial Adenocarcinoma
Appendix A: Fondation De France
Appendix B: Memoranda
Name and Subject Index.