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As this volume demonstrates, immunobiology is a young science which is undergoing explosive growth. Judged by results, it is already an elaborate discipline which cuts across every other area in biomedical research and even has its own vocabolary (e.g., the "veto" effect). Rather than incu...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Bittar, E. Edward, Bittar, Neville
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Greenwich, Conn. : JAI Press, ©1996.
Series:Principles of medical biology ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Immunology.
Molecular immunology.
Immune system.
Immunity.
Immune System
Allergy and Immunology
Immunity
Immunologie.
Immunologie moléculaire.
Système immunitaire.
Immunité.
MEDICAL > Immunology.
Immune system
Immunology
Molecular immunology
immunologie
immunology
immuniteit
immunity
immuunsysteem
immune system
autoimmunity
autoimmune diseases
Medicine (General)
Immunologie
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Thymus in Immunity
  • The B-Cell in Immunity
  • Cell-to-Cell Interactions in the Immune System
  • Immunological Tolerance
  • The Generation of Diversity in the Immune System
  • The Antigen-Antibody Complex: Structure and Recognition
  • The Major Histocompatibility Complex
  • B and T Cell Signaling at the Molecular Level
  • Cytokines in Immunology
  • Activation and Control of the Complement System
  • Phagocytes in immunity and inflammation
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Autoimmunity and autoimmune disease
  • Cell death and the immune system
  • Designer antibodies
  • Psychoneuroimmunology.