Milestones in Immunology
Based on Collected Papers
Description
Key Features
- Provides on update on developments since the publication of Nobel prize winning research for fundamental discoveries in immunology
- Discusses the changing theories and technologies that guided the field
- Lists all the important discoveries and books in the field
- Explains, in detail, the many Nobel prize-winning contributions of immunologists
- Provides recognition of the scientists who were pioneers of landmark discoveries in immunology
Readership
Immunologists, Historians of Medicine, Philosophers of Science and Medicine, Students
Table of Contents
1. Paul Ehrlich’s doctoral thesis: a milestone in the study of mast cells
2. Miller’seminal studies on the role of thymus in immunity
3. The contribution of Bruce Glick to the definition of the role played by the bursa of Fabricius in the development of the B cell lineage
4. The fundamental contribution of Robert A. Good to the discovery of the crucial role of thymus in mammalian immunity
5. Giulio Bizzozero and the discovery of platelets
6. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the clonal selection theory of antibody formation
7. The embryonic origins of lymphatic vessels: an historical review
8. The fundamental contribution of William Bate Hardy to shape the concept of mast cell heterogeneity
9. The mast cell: an evolutionary perspective
10. From the discovery of monoclonal antibodies to their therapeutic application: an historical reappraisal
11. Max D. Cooper and the delineation of two lymphoid lineages in the adaptive immune system
12. Edelman’s view on the discovery of antibodies
13. Peter Brain Medawar and the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance
14. The discovery of blood-thymus barrier
Product details
- No. of pages: 182
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: June 13, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128113134
- eBook ISBN: 9780128113295