The Innate Immune System. A compositional and functional perspective

✍ Scribed by Tom P. Monie (Auth.)

Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 217
Edition: 1st Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Innate Immune System: A Compositional and Functional Perspective focuses on the components and functionality of the innate immune system, detailing how they work in their own right, and then progressing to cover their relevance to disease and how they interface with the adaptive response.

Despite the growing appreciation of the importance of the innate immune system, many classical immunology books still focus predominantly on the adaptive immune response. Not only is this unbalanced, but it fails to reflect the growing synergy between the activation and function of the innate response and the final nature of adaptive response. This book fills the gap in knowledge that is needed to fully understand and appreciate the topic.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Dedication,Front Matter,Copyright,Preface,AcknowledgmentsEntitled to full textSection 1 - A Snapshot of the Innate Immune System, Pages 1-40
Section 2 - Immune Cells and the Process of Pattern Recognition, Pages 41-82
Section 3 - Effector Mechanisms and Cellular Outputs, Pages 83-119
Section 4 - Integrated Innate Immunity—Combining Activation and Effector Functions, Pages 121-169
Section 5 - Connecting the Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses, Pages 171-187
Section 6 - The Innate Immune System in Health and Disease, Pages 189-207
Index, Pages 209-214

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