Immunology

by Doan, Thao; Melvold, Roger; Viselli, Susan; Waltenbaugh, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780781795432
• ISBN10: 0781795435
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-05
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology is a brand-new addition to the internationally best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series. This volume offers a highly visual presentation of essential immunology material, with all the popular features of the series: over 300 full-color annotated illustrations, an outline format, chapter summaries, review questions, and case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology can be used as a review text for a short immunology course, or paired with Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology for a combined microbiology/immunology course. A companion Website features the fully searchable online text, 300 additional USMLE-style questions, an Image Bank, and a library of individual image components from which instructors can assemble their own figures in PowerPoint.

Table of Contents

Sense of being : the concept of self and self/nonself recognition
The need for self recognition	p. 3
Antigens and receptors	p. 11
The innate immune system
Barriers to infection	p. 25
Cells of the innate immune system	p. 33
Innate immune function	p. 41
The adaptive immune system
Molecules of adaptive immunity	p. 55
Cells and organs	p. 77
Generation of immune diversity : lymphocyte antigen receptors	p. 89
Lymphocyte development	p. 111
Lymphocyte activation	p. 121
Lymphocyte function	p. 139
Regulation of adaptive responses	p. 155
Clinical aspects of immunity
The well patient : how innate and adaptive immune responses maintain health	p. 165
Hypersensitivity reactions	p. 195
Immune deficiency	p. 215
Autoimmunity	p. 239
Transplantation	p. 257
Immune pharmacotherapy	p. 281
Tumor immunity	p. 297
Measurement of immune function	p. 311
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