Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology, 2/e

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Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology offers a highly visual presentation of essential immunology material, with all the popular features of the series: more than 300 full-colour annotated illustrations, an outline format, chapter summaries, review questions and case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology can be used as a review text for a short immunology course or paired with Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology for a combined microbiology/immunology course.

Key Features               

UNIT 1: SENSE OF BEING: THE CONCEPT OF SELF AND SELF/NON-SELF RECOGNITION

1. The Need for Self Recognition

2. Antigens and Receptors

UNIT II: THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM

3. Barriers to Infection

4. Cells of the Innate Immune System

5. Innate Immune Function

UNIT III: THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM

6. Molecules of Adaptive Immunity

7. Cells and Organs

8. Generation of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors

9. Lymphocyte Development: B Cells and T Cells

10. Lymphocyte Activation

11. Lymphocyte Function

12. Regulation of Adaptive Responses

UNIT IV: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF IMMUNITY

13. The Well Patient, Or How Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Maintain Health

14. Hypersensitivity States

15. Immunodeficiency

16. Autoimmunity

17. Transplantation

18. Immune Pharmacotherapy

19. Tumor Immunity

20. Measurement of Immune Function