Medical Immunology, Fifth Edition

✍ Scribed by Gabriel Virella

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 668
• Edition: 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The way it's set up, plain and packed text; and bw pics, it becomes kind of a dry read but the scientific content is fine.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Cells and Tissues Involved in the Immune Response......Page 22
Major Histocompatibility Complex......Page 42
The Induction of an Immune Response: Antigens, Lymphocytes, and Accessory Cells......Page 62
Immunoglobulin Structure......Page 86
Biosynthesis, Metabolism, and Biological Properties of Immunoglobulins......Page 104
Genetics of Immunoglobulins......Page 116
Antigen-Antibody Reactions......Page 130
The Complement System......Page 146
Lymphocyte Ontogeny and Membrane Markers......Page 172
Cell-Mediated Immunity......Page 204
The Humoral Immune Response and Its Induction by Active Immunization......Page 236
Phagocytic Cells......Page 256
Infections and Immunity......Page 270
Diagnostic Immunology......Page 288
Tolerance and Autoimmunity......Page 322
Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases......Page 352
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus......Page 370
Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 388
Hypersensitivity Reactions......Page 406
IgE-Mediated (Immediate) Hypersensitivity......Page 422
Immunohematology......Page 440
Immune Complex Diseases......Page 462
Immune System Modulators......Page 484
Transplantation Immunology......Page 510
Tumor Immunology......Page 528
Malignancies of the Immune System......Page 540
Diagnosis of Immunodeficiency Diseases......Page 566
Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases......Page 584
AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiency Diseases......Page 608
Index......Page 642