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cover image - Basic Immunology - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,6th Edition
ISBN: 9780323639118
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 04-12-2019
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $58.99

Basic Immunology - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition

by Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Andrew H. Lichtman, MD, PhD and Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Basic Immunology - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,6th Edition
ISBN: 9780323639118
Copyright: 2020
Publication Date: 04-12-2019
Page Count: 336
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $58.99

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Meticulously reviewed and updated for today’s medical students, Basic Immunology, 6th Edition, is a concise text expertly written by the same distinguished author team as the best-selling, comprehensive text, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. This focused, easy-to-understand volume uses full-color illustrations and clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases—all designed to help students master this complex topic in the most efficient, effective manner possible.

    • Emphasizes clinical aspects of immunology, including disease pathogenesis, the development of novel therapies based on basic science, and an appendix of clinical cases for real-world application.
    • Provides top-notch instruction from experienced teachers, course directors, and lecturers led by well-known editor and author Dr. Abul Abbas.
    • Features a highly readable writing style and practical organization, now with fully revised content and updated images to reflect recent important advances in today’s understanding of the immune system.
    • Provides additional online features such as answers to in-book chapter review questions, helpful animations, and self-assessment questions.
    • Presents information in a format and style that maximizes usefulness to students and teachers studying medicine, allied health fields, and biology.
    • Contains numerous features designed to help students understand key immunologic concepts: high-quality illustrations, practical tables, chapter outlines, bolded key points, and focus questions in every chapter for self-assessment and review.
  • 1 Introduction to the Immune System      Nomenclature, General Properties, and Components 2 Innate Immunity      The Early Defense Against Infections 3 Antigen Capture and Presentation to Lymphocytes      What Lymphocytes See 4 Antigen Recognition in the Adaptive Immune System      Structure of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors and Development of Immune Repertoires 5 T Cell–Mediated Immunity      Activation of T Lymphocytes 6 Effector Mechanisms of T Cell–Mediated Immunity      Functions of T Cells in Host Defense 7 Humoral Immune Responses      Activation of B Lymphocytes and Production of Antibodies 8 Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity      Elimination of Extracellular Microbes and Toxins 9 Immunological Tolerance and Autoimmunity      Self-Nonself Discrimination in the Immune System and Its Failure 10 Immune Responses Against Tumors and Transplants      Immunity to Noninfectious Transformed and Foreign Cells 11 Hypersensitivity      Disorders Caused by Immune Responses 12 Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies      Diseases Caused by Defective Immunity Selected Readings Appendix I Glossary Appendix II Cytokines Appendix III Principal Features of Selected CD Molecules APPENDIX IV Clinical Cases

  • Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Emeritus Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, Andrew H. Lichtman, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

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