Objective
The correlations between complex antigen structures in the air and the human organism are a largely unknown object of research with great importance for environmental protection, health and finances. Air pollution by antigen compounds, including a wide range of polymolecular organic substances, results mainly from technological processes and (through natural sources, too) is latently present. Scientific tests show that chronic antigenous influences after a phase of adaptation lead to an exhaustion of the powers of resistance, functional defects of the immune system (allergies, chronic infections etc.), and thus to an increase of the general disease rate of the population. It seems that the immunological response of human beings to relevant environmental factors is especially pronounced in industrialised areas.
With this project an analysis and modelling of the antigenous air pollution and its influence on human beings will be made possible for the first time through complex scientific research by interdisciplinary combined research groups. Some immunological, physico-chemical, optoelectronical, meteorological as well as mathematical procedures and methods are used. A comprehensive approach to the entire problem is only possible because of new research results in the field of determining the immune response of human beings on the whole variety of aeroantigens in one test. Furthermore, only by using high-performance parallel computers and corresponding model systems can the huge amount of data involved in such investigations be processed and visualised, thus supporting authorities and decision makers in business.
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12489 Berlin
Germany