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Books in Immunology

Elsevier's Immunology collection equips researchers with valuable insights to address the complexities of the immune system and its role in health and disease, offering original research, insightful analysis, and current theory on diagnosing, managing, and advancing treatments for allergies, asthma, and immunologic disorders.

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    • Idiotypes in Medicine: Autoimmunity, Infection and Cancer

      • 1st Edition
      • November 19, 1997
      • R.C. Kennedy + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This is the most comprehensive review of the idiotypic network available. All the current knowledge of idiotypes of the various antibodies is incorporated in this volume. The pathogenic role of idiotypes in autoimmunity and cancer is reviewed in depth. The therapeutic part focusses on harnessing anti-idiotypes for treating autoimmunological disorders, and on the employment of idiotypes for vaccines in cancer and infectious diseases, as well as explaining the manipulation of the idiotypic network in autoimmunity and cancer idiotypes and vaccines.

    • The Chemokine Factsbook

      • 1st Edition
      • April 1, 1997
      • Krishna Vaddi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      How do you keep track of basic information on the proteins you work with? Where do you find details of their physicochemical properties, amino acid sequences, gene organization? Are you tired of scanning review articles, primary papers and databases to locate that elusive fact? The Academic Press FactsBook series will satisfy scientists and clinical researchers suffering from information overload. Each volume provides a catalog of the essential properties of families of molecules. Gene organization, amino acid sequences, physicochemical properties, and biological activity are presented using a common, easy-to-follow format. Taken together they compile everything you want to know about proteins but are too busy to look for. The Chemokine FactsBook contains more than 40 entries on chemokines, and chemokine receptors from human or other origin, including IL-8, MCP-1, C5-a, RANTES, Lymphotactin, and CC CKR-1. The text provides information on tissue sources, target cells, physicochemical properties, transcription factors, regulation of expression in disease, receptor-binding characteristics, gene structure and location, amino acid sequences, and accession numbers and references.

    • The Leucocyte Antigen Factsbook

      • 2nd Edition
      • June 22, 1997
      • A. Neil Barclay + 5 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      A volume in the popular FactsBook Series, the First Edition of The Leucocyte Antigen FactsBook was hugely successful. The new Second Edition has been completely revised, updated, and expanded by 65% to include new findings and up-to-date key references. The introductory chapters have also been updated, especially in terms of nomenclature, the role of the World Wide Web, and new structural data. The Leucocyte Antigen FactsBook, Second Edition contains more than 200 entries, with approximately 70 new entries, on all the molecules specifically expressed in the surface of cells of the haematopoietic system, including all characterized CD antigens, antigen receptors, MHC antigens, adhesion molecules, and cytokine receptors. This FactsBook will be of enormous value to immunologists, cell biologists, biochemists, and endocrinologists.

    • Immunoregulation in Health and Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • May 14, 1997
      • Miodrag L. Lukic + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Immunoregulation in Health and Disease, edited by Lukic, Colic, Mostarica-Stojkovic and Cuperlovic is a multi-authored volume covering the field of Immunoregulation, and will be essential reading for all researchers working in Immunology. Each section includes at least 10 papers contributed by experts from around the World, and covers in detail the wealth of knowledge relating to immunoregulation, both in health and disease. This book will provide an invaluable overview of immune system behaviour.

    • Glycoproteins and Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 30
      • September 27, 1996
      • J. Montreuil + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The elucidation during the latter half of the 20th century of the mechanisms by which information flows from nucleic acids to proteins has completely changed the face of biological research. Many diseases are caused by abnormalities in control mechanisms which are not immediately essential for life itself but which maintain the normal social behavior of differentiated cells in multicellular organisms. The complex sugar chains of glycoproteins and glycolipids are believed to play important roles in the control of cellular functions and in recognition between the cell and its cellular and fluid environment. Investigations into the abnormalities of complex sugar chain assembly are expected to yield an important new underatanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of human diseases. This volume discusses several representative diseases which emphasize the current status of glycopathology, and will stimulate further research in this exciting field.

    • Advances in Cancer Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 68
      • May 9, 1996
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Volume 68 of Advances in Cancer Research continues the tradition of publishing up-to-date reviews and "hot" topics in cancer research. This volume begins with a "Foundations in Cancer Research" article by Harald zur Hausen that reviews his years of research on the idea that cancer can be triggered by infection. The structure and function of the cytokine receptor superfamily and its association with leukemias are discussed in depth by James Ihle. Marcia Hall and Gordon Peters review the evidence indicating that genetic abnormalities hinder the function of certain cyclins and their inhibitors. The most widely studied protooncogene, c-myc, is reviewed by Marie Henriksson and Bernhard Lüscher; the chapter focuses on the function of c-myc as a transcription factor rather than on the effects of gene translocation and activation on malignancies. Ham Werner and Derek LeRoith present data on the role that insulin-like growth factors play on cell growth and regulation. In the final chapter, Olli-P. Kallioniemi and Tapio Visakorpi investigate the field of prostate cancer and, more importantly, the biological reason and natural history behind the growth of this cancer.

    • Antigen Binding Molecules: Antibodies and T-Cell Receptors

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 49
      • December 13, 1996
      • English
      • eBook
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      Topics Covered Include: X-ray crystallography of ligands. Catalytic antibodies. Nature of the antigen. Antibody binding sites. Maturation of the immune response. Computational biochemistry of antibodies and T-cell receptors. Antigen-specific T-cell receptors and their reactions.

    • Advances in Immunology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 61
      • February 6, 1996
      • English
      • Hardback
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      "The series which all immunologists need."--The Pharmaceutical Journal"Advances in Immunology must find itself among the most active volumes in the libraries of our universities and institutions."--Scie... a permanent place in biomedical libraries as an aid in research and in teaching"--Journal of Immunological Methods"A provocative and scholarly review of research"--Journal of the American Medical Association"Provides an extremely valuable source of reference and many stimulating ideas...the main repository of information in a rapidly devloping subject"--The Lancet"Provides unrivalled value in both academic and fiscal terms and should be purchased by hard pressed librarians as a major priority to be jealously defended."--Journal of Medical Microbiology"A very valuable serial publication...no serious student of immunology can afford to be without it."--Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

    • Advances in Immunology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 63
      • October 21, 1996
      • English
      • eBook
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      Praise for the Series:"The series which all immunologists need."--The Pharmaceutical Journal"Advances in Immunology must find itself among the most active volumes in the libraries of our universities and institutions."--Scie... a permanent place in biomedical libraries as an aid in research and in teaching."--Journal of Immunological Methods

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