Medical Immunology

Article number 10123774

Special features which help make this introductory text outstanding include: Its comprehensive and thoroughly integrated coverage of basic and clinical immunology. Each immune-related disease is presented in the same context as its underlying immunologic principles. Its clear emphasis on human immunology. The volume is extensively and selectively referenced, providing extremely up-to-date material on virtually all the recent advances in immunology. Preface: Our experience with a short course in immunology for first-year medical students at the Duke University Medical Center left us with a sense of dismay at the complexities of the cellular and molecular events that together comprise the immune response… Contents: 1 The Foundations of the Immune Response – 2 Antigens and Antibodies – 3 The Lymphocyte Surface – 4 Between Recognition and Response – 5 Cellular Interactions and Controls – 6 The Effector Limb – 7 Immune Complexes and Immune Complex Disease – 8 Tolerance and Autoimmunity – 9 Immunogenetics and Transplantation – 10 The Immunodeficiency Diseases – 11 The Immunology of Infectious Disease – 12 The Immunoproliferative Diseases – 13 Tumor Immunology – 14 Immunohematology – 15 Other Immunologic Disorders – 16 Immunosuppressive Agents – Appendices A–C and Index.

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