How the immune system works

Author(s)

• Sompayrac, Lauren

Bibliographic Information

How the immune system works

Lauren Sompayrac

Blackwell Pub., 2008

3rd ed

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• An overview
• The innate immune system
• B cells and antibodies
• The magic of antigen presentation
• T cells and cytokines
• Lymphoid organs and lymphocyte trafficking
• Turning off the immune system
• Tolerance induction and MHC restriction
• Immunological memory and vaccines
• Immunopathology : the immune system gone wrong
• Cancer and the immune system
• A critique of the immune system

Details

• NCID: BA85635933
• ISBN:
  • 9781405162210
• LCCN: 2007036835
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 134 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QR181
  • NLM : QW 504
  • DC22 : 616.07/9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Immune system
  • LCSH : Immunity
  • MESH : Immune System -- physiology
  • MESH : Immune System -- anatomy & histology
  • MESH : Immune System -- physiopathology
  • MESH : Immunity -- physiology