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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 April 2007
- ISBN 9780199206148
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 280x220x25 mm
- Weight 1360 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 367 colour illustrations 0
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Short description:
Immunity: The Immune Response to Infectious and Inflammatory Disease presents an engaging insight into one of the most intricate yet conceptually challenging biological systems. With a unique emphasis on the immune response to infection, it builds up a complete picture of the immune system as a dynamic interface with the outside world.
MoreLong description:
An understanding of the immune system is central to the understanding of how the body interacts with its surroundings, and how it both protects itself and responds to infectious disease. But what processes underpin the body's response to infection? How does our immune system remember its previous encounters? And what happens when the tight regulation of the immune system fails?
Immunity: The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease presents an engaging insight into one of the most intricate yet conceptually challenging biological systems. With a unique emphasis on the immune response to infection, it presents the immune system as a dynamic interface with the outside world.
Building up a complete picture of the subject, the book leads the student through both innate and adaptive immunity, how infection is detected, and how the cells of the immune system interact to generate a response, before examining the immune response to bacterial, viral, and fungal and parasitic infections. Finally, the book explores the relationship between the regulation of the immune response and immunological diseases - how the immune system is controlled, and the implications for our
health when this control is lost - and immune memory and the development of vaccines.
Immunity combines articulate prose with striking full colour illustrations, while the unique Primers in Biology modular structure integrates text, illustrations, definitions, and literature references for each topic into one double-page spread, bringing to the student's fingertips all the tools that they need to master that topic.
The immune system is one of the most challenging yet rewarding biological systems to comprehend; Immunity: The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease is the ideal resource for any student wishing to develop a sound grasp of this fascinating subject.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre features:
For lecturers
Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation
For students
Interactive self-assessment questions for each section of the book.
Lecturers in the US and Canada:
Immunity is distributed in the US and Canada by Sinauer Associates. Ordering details can be found at: www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=1798
The message and information in this book are thought provoking and of practical value. I recommend it to every library, public health professional, research scholar, academic, clinician, nurse, manager and care provider in the UK and abroad.
Table of Contents:
Overview of the Immune Response
Signaling and Adhesive Molecules of the Immune System
Innate Immunity
Adaptive Immunity and the Detection of Infection by T Lymphocytes
Activation and Effector Actions of T Cells
B Cells and Humoral Immunity
Development of Lymphocytes and Selection of the Receptor Repertoire
Specialized Lymphocytes in Early Responses and Homeostasis
The Immune Response to Bacterial Infection
The Immune Response to Viral Infection
The Immune Response to Fungal and Parasitic Infection
Tolerance and Autoimmunity
Allergy and Hypersensitivity
Transplantation Immunology, Tumor Immunity and Vaccination
