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Edited By
Fred Davison, Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Newbury,UK
Bernd Kaspers, Institute for Animal Physiology, Munich, Germany
Karel Schat, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Description
The science underpinning avian immunology is crucial to understanding basic immunological principles and the exceptional features of the
avian immune system, as different strategies birds have adopted can provide important evolutionary insights. This book provides the most
complete picture of the avian immune system so far. The world-wide importance of poultry protein for the human diet, the threat of an
avian influenza pandemic and heavy reliance on vaccination to protect commercial flocks world-wide demonstrates the need to review the
important practical lessons in disease control presented here.
Audience
Immunologists, cell biologists, pathologists, poultry scientists, vaccinologists and veterinarians. Also zoologists, ecologists, ornithologists
and evolutionary biologists interested in using immunological parameters as selection traits for studies on survival and evolution
Contents
The importance of the avian immune system and its unique features
Structure of the avian lymphoid system
Development of the avian immune
system
B cells, the bursa of Fabricius and the generation of antibody reperotires
Avian T cells: antigen recognition and lineage
Structure
and evolution of avian immunoglobulins
Avian innate immune responses
The avian MHC
Avian antigen presenting cells
Avian cytokines and
chemokines
Immunogenetics and mapping immunological functions
The avian mucosal immune system
The avian enteric immune system in health
and disease
The avian respiratory immune system
The avian reproductive immune system
Avian immunosuppressive diseases and immune evasion
Factors modulating the avian immune system
Autoimmune diseases of poultry
Tumours of the avian immune system
Practical aspects of poultry
vaccination
Comparative immunology of agricultural birds
Ecoimmunology
Appendix 1
Genetic stocks for immunological research
Appendix
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Resources available for studying avian immunology
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Hardbound, 496 pages, publication date: JAN-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370634-8
ISBN-10: 0-12-370634-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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