Immunology for medical students. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matthew Helbert.
• Authors: Helbert, Matthew
• Other Names: Nairn, Roderick
• Contents: Introduction to the immune system -- Basic concepts and components of the immune system -- Introduction to antigen recognition -- Antigens and antibody structure -- Antibody-antigen interaction -- Antibody diversity -- The T-cell receptor -- Major histocompatibility complex -- Review of antigen recognition -- Antigen processing and presentation -- Lymphocyte activation -- Hematopoiesis -- Organs and tissues of the immune system -- B-cell development -- T-cell development -- T-cell interactions and T-cell help -- Immunologic memory and homeostasis -- Regulation of the immune system -- Brief review of immune physiology -- Constitutive defenses including complement -- Phagocytes -- Killing in the immune system -- Inflammation -- Cytokines in the immune system -- Infections and vaccines -- Hypersensitivity reactions -- Immediate hypersensitivity (type I) : allergy -- How autoimmune disease develops -- Antibody-mediated hypersensitivity (type II) -- Immune complex disease (type III hypersensitivity) -- Delayed hypersensitivity (type IV) and review of hypersensitivity reactions -- Primary immunodeficiency -- Secondary immunodeficiency -- Transplantation -- Tumor immunology -- Biopharmaceuticals.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 616.07/9; Immunology; Immune System Phenomena; Immunology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780702068003; 0702068004
• Related ISBNs: 9780702068010; 0702068012
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from resource electronic title page (ClinicalKey, viewed June 13, 2016).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.