Meticulously reviewed and updated for today’s medical students, Basic Immunology, 6th Edition, is a concise text expertly written by the same distinguished author team as the best-selling, comprehensive text, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. This focused, easy-to-understand volume uses full-color illustrations and clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases-all designed to help students master this complex topic in the most efficient, effective manner possible.
Contents
1 Introduction to the Immune System XXX
Nomenclature, General Properties, and Components
2 Innate Immunity XXX
The Early Defense Against Infections
3 Antigen Capture and Presentation to Lymphocytes XXX
What Lymphocytes See
4 Antigen Recognition in the Adaptive Immune System XXX
Structure of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors and Development of Immune Repertoires
5 T Cell-Mediated Immunity XXX
Activation of T Lymphocytes
6 Effector Mechanisms of T Cell-Mediated Immunity XXX
Functions of T Cells in Host Defense
7 Humoral Immune Responses XXX
Activation of B Lymphocytes and Production of Antibodies
8 Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity XXX
Elimination of Extracellular Microbes and Toxins
9 Immunological Tolerance and Autoimmunity XXX
Self-Nonself Discrimination in the Immune System and Its Failure
10 Immune Responses Against Tumors and Transplants XXX
Immunity to Noninfectious Transformed and Foreign Cells
11 Hypersensitivity XXX
Disorders Caused by Immune Responses
12 Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies XXX
Diseases Caused by Defective Immunity
Selected Readings XXX
appendix I 275 Glossary
Appendix II 303 Cytokines
Appendix III 307 Principal Features of Selected CD Molecules
APPENDIX IV 315 Clinical Cases
Index XXX
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