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Basic Immunology

Functions and Disorders of the Immune System

  • 4th Edition - October 31, 2012
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, Shiv Pillai
  • Language: English

Understand all the essential concepts in immunology with Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System! This concise, focused text provides you with an up-to-da… Read more

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Understand all the essential concepts in immunology with Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System! This concise, focused text provides you with an up-to-date, accessible introduction to the workings of the human immune system.

Key features

  • Efficiently master the immunology information you need
    • through clinically focused content, logically organized by mechanism.
  • Apply what you've learned to real-world situations by referencing the appendix of clinical cases.
  • Enhance your learning with the help of numerous full-color illustrations and useful tables, as well as summary boxes, review questions, and a glossary of immunology terms.
  • Study immunology anywhere! Online access to www.StudentConsult.com opens the door to an enhanced e-book and ancillary components!

Readership

Medical Students, Allied Health course-takers, and lower-level Immunology undergrad courses

Table of contents

1. Introduction to the Immune System


2. Innate Immunity


3. Antigen Capture and Presentations to Lymphocytes


4. Antigen Recognition in the Adaptive Immune System


5. Cell-Mediated Immune Responses


6. Effector Mechanisms of Cell-Mediated Immunity


7. Humoral Immune Responses


8. Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity


9. Immunologic Tolerance and Autoimmunity


10. Immune Responses Against Tumors and Transplants


11. Hypersensitivity Diseases


12. Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies

Suggested Readings

Appendix I: Principal Features of CD Molecules

Appendix II: Glossary

Appendix III: Clinical Cases

Index

Review quotes

"The book is another of the successful endeavours of the authors to teach basic immunology to beginners and summarise the main concepts of science in an easily readable way...Basic Immunology is an excellent up-to-date piece of work that covers all the major topics of immunology. The text is comprehensible and the concepts are written in a way that will satisfy the non-specialist reader and will keep their interest high till the end...To sum up, this is fine textbook, addressed mainly to those of a non-immunological background...it is a good start for undergraduate students or the general public who wish to make their first attempt to grasp immunological concepts."

British Society of Immunology, May 2013

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 2, 2012
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Abul K. Abbas

Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, USA

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Andrew H. Lichtman

Andrew H. Lichtman is Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

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Shiv Pillai

Shiv Pillai is Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, USA