Principles of immunopharmacology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Basel ; Boston :
Birkhäuser Verlag,
[1999]
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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.