Immunity

by Paul, William E.

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Title Statements

Full title :Immunity / William E. Paul.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
Place of Publication:Baltimore
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781421418025, 1421418029
oclc:ocn921847377
LC Classification:RC582
Dewey Decimal:616.07/9

Part 1. Immunology. Defense and Danger -- Tracing an Immune Response -- The Laws of Immunology: Universality, Tolerance, and Appropriateness -- Growing Up and Learning Immunology.

Part 2. The First Law: Universality. Vaccines and Serum Therapy -- How Is Specificity Achieved? -- Immunology's "Eureka": Clonal Selection -- How Does Each Lymphocyte Develop a Distinct Receptor? -- B Cells and T Cells Recognize Different Types of Antigens -- My Foray into the Specificity Problem -- Genes And Immune Response -- The Laboratory of Immunology and the T-Cell Receptor.

Part 3. The Second Law: Tolerance -- What Is Tolerance? -- How Does Tolerance Develop? -- Regulatory T Cells and the Prevention of Autoimmunity.

Part 4. The Third Law: Appropriateness -- Different Structures, Different Functions -- Specific Types of Infections, Specific Types of T-Cell Responses -- Our Discovery of IL-4 and the Cells That Make It -- CD8 T Cells: Killer Cells and Friends -- Dendritic Cells: The Cells That Interpret the Infectious Threat.

Part 5. How Did The Immune System Evolve? -- An "Ancient" Immune Response Controls "Modern" Immunity -- The Microbiome and Innate Immunity -- Evolution of the Immune System …

Subjects

HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Immune system Immune System Diseases Immune System Diseases -- immunology Immune System Phenomena Immunité immunity Immunologic diseases Maladies immunologiques MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine Système immunitaire