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The principles and practice of diagnostic immunology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Normansell, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : VCH, [1994]
Series:Analytical techniques in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine.
Subjects:
Immunologic Techniques.
Laboratory Techniques and Procedures.
Table of Contents:
  • Protein chemistry and the humoral immune system
  • Electrophoretic techniques
  • Quantitation techniques
  • Algorithm for serum protein analysis
  • Blotting techniques
  • Staining procedures
  • Cellular arm of the immune response
  • In vivo tests
  • In vitro tests: flow cytometry and lymphocyte phenotyping
  • Cell function studies
  • Specific immune responses to infectious agents
  • Test procedures used
  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Nucleic acid probes
  • Specific infectious diseases
  • Immune responses to autologous antigens
  • Non-organ-specific autoimmune diseases.
  • Organ-specific autoimmune diseases
  • Deficiencies of the immune system
  • Primary immune deficiencies
  • Secondary immune deficiencies
  • Evaluation of immune status
  • Transplantation and the HLA system
  • Class I MHC antigens
  • Class II MHC antigens
  • Specificity nomenclature
  • Class III MHC antigens
  • Assay procedures
  • Mixed lymphocyte culture for HLA-D typing
  • HLA and disease associations
  • Tumor immunity
  • Tumor antigens
  • Immune responses to tumors
  • Hypersensitivity and the IgE response.
  • Immediate hypersensitivity reactions
  • IgE levels and measurement
  • Low affinity IgE receptor
  • Allergens.