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.

Immunology features:

• over 300 full-color annotated illustrations
• an outline format
• chapter summaries
• review questions
• case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations

Contents

Sense of Being: The Concept of Self and Self/Nonself Recognition

1. The Need for Self Recognition
2. Antigens and Receptors

The Innate Immune System

3. Barriers to Infection
4. Cells of the Innate Immune System
5. Innate Immune Function

The Adaptive Immune System

6. Molecules of Adaptive Immunity
7. Cells and Organs
8. Generation of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors
9. Lymphocyte Development
10. Lymphocyte Activation
11. Lymphocyte Function
12. Regulation of Adaptive Responses

Clinical Aspects of Immunity

13. The Well Patient: How Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Maintain Health
14. Hypersensitivity Reactions
15. Immune Deficiency
16. Autoimmunity
17. Trasplantation
18. Immune Pharmacotherapy
19. Tumor Immunity
20. Measurement of Immune Function

Index

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