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Infection and Immunity

✍ Scribed by Jon S. Friedland, Liz Lightstone

Publisher
Informa Healthcare
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
267
Series
Postgraduate Medical Sciences Series
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Imperial College London, UK. Explores current areas of research and discusses the role of MHC genes, cytokine networks, and B-cells. Examines the genetics of infection with emphasis on the building blocks on which host defense is based. For researchers and practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) transgenic mice for the analysis of autoimmune disease......Page 14
Manipulating cytokine networks in autoimmunity......Page 26
B-cells and autoimmune disease......Page 48
Complement, Fc receptors and immune complexes......Page 70
Peripheral tolerance: the transplantation model......Page 96
Tumour immunology......Page 120
Genetic susceptibility to infection......Page 136
Toll-like receptors and host response to infection......Page 154
Matrix metalloproteinases and infectious diseases......Page 174
HIV and its manipulation of chemokine receptors......Page 188
Viral evasion of the immune system......Page 202
Pathogenicity islands......Page 222
Glossary......Page 242
Index......Page 246

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