Immunology for medical students (Paperback)

Salient Features
* Crystal-clear illustrations make immunology remarkably easy to understand.
* Detailed clinical cases demonstrate real-world applications.
* Technical boxes point out important scientific advances.
* End-of-chapter checklists of learning points facilitate review.

Table of Contents
Section one: Introduction
1. Basic concepts and components of the immune system
2. Basic concepts

Section two: Antigen-recognition molecules
3. Introduction to antigen recognition
4. Antigens and antibody structure
5. Antibody-antigen interaction
6. Antibody diversity
7. The T cell receptor
8. Major histocompatibility complex
9. Review of antigen recognition

Section three: Physiology
10. Antigen processing and presentation
11. Lymphocyte activation
12. Hematopoiesis
13. The organs and tissues of the immune system
14. B cell development
15. T cell development
16. Cell-cell interaction in generating effector lymphocytes
17. Immunological memory
18. Review of immune physiology

Section four: Innate Immunity
19. Constitutive defenses including complement
20. Phagocytes
21. Killing in the immune system
22. Inflammation
23. Review of innate immunity

Section five: Immune system in health and disease
24. Infections and vaccines
25. Hypersensitivity reaction
26. Immediate hypersensitivity (type I): allergy
27. Autoimmunity
28. Antibody-mediated hypersensitivity (type II)
29. Immune complex disease (type III hypersensitivity)
30. Delayed hypersensitivity (type IV)
31. Primary immunodeficiency
32. Secondary immunodeficiency
33. Transplantation
34. Tumor immunology
35. Immunotherapies
36. Review of immunity in health and disease
Appendices
Glossary
Index