Immunology
With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
7th Edition
Published on 1. April 2006
Book
Mixed media product
564 pages
978-0-323-03399-2 (ISBN)
Description
Extensively updated, with new contributors, brilliant new illustrations and a wealth of supporting material online, this 7th edition offers you a carefully structured approach to learning the building blocks of the immune system, as well as initiation and actions of the immune response. The website which accompanies this text gives access to all the images in the book, up to 20 detailed animation sequences (which link to further supporting text, illustrations, molecular models and video clips), 8 lectures which explain how the immune system responds to different infections or to tissue grafts, and a test bank of over 200+ multiple choice and 100 USMLE-style questions.
More details
Edition
7th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
St Louis
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Approx. 250 illustrations (150 in full colour)
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-323-03399-2 (9780323033992)
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Persons
David Male
MA, PhD, Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Jonathan Brostoff
MA, DM, DSc(Med), FRCP, FRCPath, Professor Emeritus of Allergy and Environmental Health, King's College London, London, UK
David Roth
MA, DSc (Oxon), Hon FRCP (Lond), FRCPath, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Director of Institute of Biomedical Science, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Ivan Roitt
MA, DSc (Oxon), Hon FRCP (Lond), FRCPath, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Director of Institute of Biomedical Science, University College London Medical School, London, UK
MA, PhD, Professor of Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Jonathan Brostoff
MA, DM, DSc(Med), FRCP, FRCPath, Professor Emeritus of Allergy and Environmental Health, King's College London, London, UK
David Roth
MA, DSc (Oxon), Hon FRCP (Lond), FRCPath, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Director of Institute of Biomedical Science, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Ivan Roitt
MA, DSc (Oxon), Hon FRCP (Lond), FRCPath, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Director of Institute of Biomedical Science, University College London Medical School, London, UK
Content
1 Introduction to the immune system Components of the Immune System 2 Cells, tissues and organs of the immune system 3 Antibodies 4 Complement 5 T cell receptors and MHC molecules Modes of Immune Response 6 Mechanisms of innate immunity 7 Antigen presentation 8 The antibody response 9 Mononuclear phagocytes in immune defence 10 Cell mediated cytotoxicity 11 Regulation of the immune response 12 Immune responses in tissues Defense Against Infectious Agents 13 Immunity to viruses 14 Immunity to bacteria and fungi 15 Immunity to protozoa and worms 16 Primary Immunodeficiency 17 AIDS and secondary immunodeficiency 18 Vaccination against infection Immune Responses Against Tissues 19 Immunological tolerance 20 Autoimmune disease 21 Transplantation and rejection 22 Tumour immunotherapy Hypersensitivity 23 Type I hypersensitivity 24 Type II and III hypersensitivity - basic science 25 Type II and III hypersensitivity - clinical 26 Type IV hypersensitivity