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Immunity
The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease
Anthony DeFranco, Richard Locksley, and Miranda Robertson
350 pages
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367 colour illustrations
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279x216mm
978-0-19-920614-8
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Paperback
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05 April 2007
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- Balances a rigorous, wide-reaching account of this important field of research with accessibility of presentation, ensuring the student is engaged not intimidated.
- Unique modular format breaks the subject down into discrete, manageable chunks, to help motivate - rather than intimidate - the student.
- Custom-drawn full colour illustrations enliven the text, helping the student to visualize and comprehend the concepts being introduced.
- Online Resource Centre features resources for both lecturers and students, to enhance the value of the text as both a teaching and learning resource.
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=1798Readership: Upper level undergraduates studying immunity to infection or molecular and cellular immunology, and an ideal primer for those postgraduates who need an overview of this subject.
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Anthony DeFranco, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, Richard Locksley, Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, and Miranda Robertson, Associate Editorial Director, BioMed Central
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"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." - Times Higher Education Supplement
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1: Overview of the Immune Response
2: Signaling and Adhesive Molecules of the Immune System
3: Innate Immunity
4: Adaptive Immunity and the Detection of Infection by T Lymphocytes
5: Activation and Effector Actions of T Cells
6: B Cells and Humoral Immunity
7: Development of Lymphocytes and Selection of the Receptor Repertoire
8: Specialized Lymphocytes in Early Responses and Homeostasis
9: The Immune Response to Bacterial Infection
10: The Immune Response to Viral Infection
11: The Immune Response to Fungal and Parasitic Infection
12: Tolerance and Autoimmunity
13: Allergy and Hypersensitivity
14: Transplantation Immunology, Tumor Immunity and Vaccination
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