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Immunology /

Drawing on her extensive classroom experience, the editor provides a clearly written contemporary introduction to the body's responses to disease. She brings a strong experimental/clinical focus to the study of immunology at the molecular and cellular levels, employing a range of effective peda...

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Clasificación:QR181 K5.62 2006
Autor principal: Kindt, Thomas J., 1939-
Otros Autores: Osborne, Barbara Anne (coaut), Goldsby, Richard A (coaut)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : W.H. Freeman, 2006.
Edición:6a ed.
Temas:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Iintroduction
  • 1. Overview of the Immune System
  • 2. Cells and Organs of the Immune System
  • 3. Innate Immunity
  • Part II. Generation of B-cell and T-cell recptors
  • 4. Antigens and Antibodies
  • 5. Organization and Expression of Immunoglobulin Genes
  • 6. Antigen-Antibody Interactions: Principles and Applications 7. The Complement System
  • 8. The Major Histocompatibility Complex and Antigen Presentation
  • 9. T-Cell Receptor
  • 10. T-Cell Maturation, Activation, and Differentation
  • 11. T-Cell Generation, Activation, and Differentation
  • Part III. Immune efector mechanisms
  • 12. Cytokines
  • 13. Leukocyte activation and migration
  • 14. Cell-Mediated Effector Responses
  • 15. Hypersensitive Reactions
  • Part IV. The immune system in health and disease
  • 16. Tolerance and Autoimmunity
  • 17. Transplantation Immunology
  • 18. Immune Response to Infectious Diseases
  • 19. Vaccines
  • 20. AIDS and Other Immunodeficiencies
  • 21. Cancer and the Immune System
  • 22. Experimental Systems.