Screen LibraryAtlas of immunology
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| Group Author: | ; |
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CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
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| Publisher Address: | Boca Raton, FL |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 940 p.: ill. ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781439802687 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1439802688 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | Q939 |
| CLC: | Q939.91-64 |
| Call Number: | Q939.91-64/C957/3rd ed. |
| Contents: |
Includes index. History of immunology -- Molecules, cells, and tissues of the immune response -- Antigens and immunogens -- Major histocompatibility complex -- Antigen processing and presentation -- B lymphocyte development and immunoglobulin genes -- Immunoglobulin synthesis, properties, structure, and function -- Antigen-antibody interactions -- The thymus and T lymphocytes -- Cytokines and chemokines -- The complement system -- Types I, II, III, and IV hypersensitivity -- Immunoregulation and immunologic tolerance -- Autoimmunity -- Mucosal immunity -- Immunohematology -- Immunological diseases and immunopathology -- Immunophenotyping of hematopoietic malignancies -- Immunodeficiencies: congenital and acquired -- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Immunomodulators -- Transplantation immunology -- Tumor immunology -- Immunity against microorganisms -- Vaccines and immunization -- Therapeutic immunology -- Comparative immunology -- Immunological methods and molecular techniques -- Diagnostic immunohistochemistry. ""This heavyweight offering could be a vade mecum for the infectious disease researcher. It covers the whole of immunology from A blood group to zymosan in easy-to-read bites."---Brian Henderson, University College London, in Microbiology Today" ""A beautifully illustrated and appealing discussion of the history of immunology... clinical and research immunologists will delight in the book as the showpiece of a personal library."---L.L. Wallman, Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Westmead Hospital, Australia, for the World Allergy Association" ""A well-illustrated encyclopedic dictionary... this handy work contributes significantly to this rapidly advancing discipline...Summing up: Highly recommended." |