Table of Contents:
  • Mechanisms of immunity
  • Specificity of the immune system: structure and generation of diversity
  • Development and maturation of T- and B-cells
  • T-cell-mediated immunity
  • Cytokines
  • Antibody-mediated immunity
  • Innate immunity: phagocytes, natural killer cells and the complement system
  • Inflammatory mediators
  • Immune response in human pathology: infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites
  • Immune response in human pathology: hypersensitivity
  • Immune response in human pathology: transplantation
  • Cancer: targets for recognition and elimination of tumor cells by the immune system
  • Neuroimmunoendocrinology
  • Immunodiagnosis
  • Antibody detection
  • Immunohematological identification of leukemia and lymphoma
  • Immunoassays
  • Immunotherapeutics
  • Vaccines
  • Sera and immunoglobulins
  • Antiallergic drugs and immunotherapy
  • Antiasthma drugs
  • Immunotherapeutic properties of immunoaugmenting agents
  • Immunostimulants as anti-infectives
  • Mild plant and dietary immunostimulants
  • Immunosuppressives: transplant rejection inhibitors and cytotoxic drugs
  • Corticosteroids
  • Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs
  • Immunotoxicology.