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The Antigens /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Academic Press,
1982.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; The Antigens; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents of Other Volumes; CHAPTER 1. Dynamic Aspects of Antibody Function; I. Introduction; II. Structure of Immunoglobulins; III. Folding of Immunoglobulin Domains; IV. The Association between Domains and Chains; V. Dynamics of Segmental Flexibility; VI. Kinetics of Antibody-Hapten Association; VII. Kinetic Expression of Elementary Interactions; VIII. Conformational Transitions Induced by Hapten Binding; References; CHAAPTER 2. Parasite Antigens and TheirImmunogenicity in Infected Hosts.
- I. IntroductionII. Classification of Parasite Antigens; III. Accessibility of Parasite Antigens; IV. Some Parasite Antigens and Antigenic Preparations with Proved Immunoparasitological Utility and forWhich Some Immunochemical Information Is Available; V. Concluding Comment: Parasite Immunochemistry in the Early 1980s; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER 3. Immunological Tolerance; I. Introduction; II. General Methodology; III. Tolerance Induction; IV. Tolerance Duration; V. The Effect of Tolerance on the Specificity ofthe Immune Response; VI. Tolerance at the Cellular Level.
- VII. Mechanism and Molecular Basis of Unresponsiveness-Pathwaysof InhibitionVIII. Split Tolerance; IX. The Effect of External Agents on Tolerance Induction; X. Cellular Aspects of Tolerance Circumvention; XI. Tolerance and Immunity to Autologous Molecules; XII. Barriers against Destruction of the Fetus; XIII. Animal Models for Autoimmunity; XIV. Autoimmune Disease; XV. Tolerance as a Potential Tool for Heterotransplantation; XVI. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgment; References; Author Index; Subject Index.