Immunology for medical students / Roderick Nairn and Matthew Helbert.
Language: English Publisher: Edinburgh : Elsevier Mosby, 2007Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 308 s. illISBN:- 9780323043311
- 0323043313
- 616.079 22
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Previous ed.: 2004.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Section 1 Introduction
- 1 Basic concepts and components of the immune system
- 2 Basic concepts
- Section 2 Antigen-recognition molecules
- 3 Introduction to antigen recognition
- 4 Antigens and antibody structure
- 5 Antibody-antigen interaction
- 6 Antibody diversity
- 7 The T cell receptor
- 8 Major histocompatibility complex
- 9 Review of antigen recognition
- Section 3 Physiology
- 10 Antigen processing and presentation
- 11 Lymphocyte activation
- 12 Hematopoiesis
- 13 The organs and tissues of the immune system
- 14 B cell development
- 15 T cell development
- 16 Cell-cell interaction in generating effector lymphocytes
- 17 Immunological memory
- 18 Review of immune physiology
- Section 4 Innate Immunity
- 19 Constitutive defenses including complement
- 20 Phagocytes
- 21 Killing in the immune system
- 22 Inflammation
- 23 Review of innate immunity
- Section 5 Immune system in health and disease
- 24 Infections and vaccines
- 25 Hypersensitivity reactions
- 26 Immediate hypersensitivity (type I): allergy
- 27 Autoimmunity
- 28 Antibody-mediated hypersensitivity (type II)
- 29 Immune complex disease (type III hypersensitivity)
- 30 Delayed hypersensitivity (type IV)
- 31 Primary immunodeficiency
- 32 Secondary immunodeficiency
- 33 Transplantation
- 34 Tumor immunology
- 35 Immunotherapies
- 36 Review of immunity in health and disease
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Index