Last edition Elsevier Comprehensive yet concise and easy to read, this updated edition of Immunology for Medical Students effectively explains complex immunology topics and their relevance in clinical practice. Boasting just the right amount of detail for today’s busy medical student, it delivers state-of-the-art coverage of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge in the field. Detailed and explanatory illustrations, combined with clinically relevant examples and cases, offer a unique understanding of the human immune system and its role in protecting us from disease.
Last Edition
ISBN 13:h9780702068010
Imprint:hElsevier
Language:hEnglish
Authors:hMatthew Helbert
Pub Date:h06/2016
Pages:h344
Illus: 320 in full color
Weight:h800.00 grams
Size:h216 X 274 mm
Product Type:hSoftcover
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- • Designed with a clear focus on the needs of medical students.
- • Includes overview illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, as well as illustrations with dialogue boxes.
- • Immunology icons are repeated throughout the text, accompanied by a helpful Icon Key.
- • Detailed clinical cases demonstrate real-world applications.
- • Technical boxes point out important scientific advances.
- • End-of-chapter checklists of learning points facilitate review.
- • Student Consult eBook version included with purchase.
- • This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- • You'll also access 100 multiple-choice questions to enhance your understanding of the material.
- • Features 17 new clinical boxes as well as critical revisions to 25 of the clinical boxes featured in the previous edition, providing relevant, practical examples of cases commonly encountered in day-to-day practice.
- • Presents new material on T Cell Subsets, the molecular and cellular processes involved in their selection and differentiation, and how this knowledge is already translating into clinical developments.
- • Includes a brand-new chapter titled Regulation of the Immune System.
- Matthew Helbert, FRCP, FRCPath, PhD, Consultant Immunologist, Department of Immunology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
- Section 1: Introduction
- Introduction to the Immune System Basic Concepts and Components of the Immune System
- Section 2: 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 3: 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. T-Cell Interactions and T-Cell Help
- 17. Immunological Memory and Homeostasis
- 18. Regulation of the Immune System
- 19. Brief Review of Immune Physiology
- Section 4: Innate Immunity
- 20. Constitutive Defenses Including Complement
- 21. Phagocytes
- 22. Killing in the Immune System
- 23. Inflammation
- 24. Cytokines in the Immune System
- Section 5: Immune System in Health and Disease
- 25. Infections and Vaccines
- 26. Hypersensitivity Reactions
- 27. Immediate Hypersensitivity (Type I): Allergy
- 28. How Autoimmune Disease Develops
- 29. Antibody-Mediated Hypersensitivity (Type II)
- 30. Immune Complex Disease (Type III Hypersensitivity)
- 31. Delayed Hypersensitivity (Type IV) and Review of Hypersensitivity Reactions
- 32. Primary Immunodeficiency
- 33. Secondary Immunodeficiency
- 34. Transplantation
- 35. Tumor Immunology
- 36. Bio Pharmaceuticals Glossary Index
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