Immunology Guidebook
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The Immunology Guidebook provides an easily accessible text-reference to the more up-to-date and difficult concepts in the complex science of immunology. It aims to demystify basic concepts and specialised molecular and cellular interactions. Its 18 chapters offer a logical and sequential presentation where much of the data is displayed in carefully designed tables. This book is intended for immunology students, researchers, practitioners and basic biomedical scientists.
Key Features
- Tables provide a quick reference to ‘difficult to find' immunology data
- A distillate of the latest information on immunogenetics of the human MHC associated with tissue transplantation
- Information boxes featurw related web resources
Readership
Immunologists, bio-medical researchers, clinicians, pharmacologists, allergists, microbiologists
Table of Contents
- Molecules, Cells and Tissues of Immunity
Antigens, Immunogens, Vaccines and Immunization
Cluster of Differentiation (CD) Antigens
The HLA Dictionary 2001
Nomenclature for Factors of the HLA system
Nomenclature for Factors of the Dog Major Histocompatibility System (DLA), 2000: Second Report of the ISAG DLA Nomenclature Committee
Antigen Presentation
B Cells, Immunoglobulin Genes and Immunoglobulin Structure
T Cells and the Thymus
Cytokines and Chemokines
The Complement System
Type I, II, II and IV Hypersensitivity
Microbial Immunity
Immunoregulation, Tolerance and Therapeutic Immunology
Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine
Immunological Diseases and Immunopathology
Immunodeficiencies: Congenital and Acquired
Transplantation Immunology
Product details
- No. of pages: 1000
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2004
- Published: August 5, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080478425
About the Editors
Julius Cruse
Affiliations and Expertise
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Robert Lewis
Affiliations and Expertise
The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, U.S.A.