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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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    • Advances in Cancer Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 68
      • May 9, 1996
      • English
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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.

    • Autoantibodies

      • 1st Edition
      • July 17, 1996
      • J.B. Peter + 1 more
      • English
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      This volume is THE definitive, completely up-to-date, reference work for ALL researchers and clinicians working in autoimmunity.Up-to-D... This is a timely critical review of more than 100 autoantibodies by leading experts in their respective fields, and includes many recent references.Internati... Experts: The 120 Chapters have been written by the top international cadre of authors who have provided structured, expert contributions.Compre... A total comprehensive perspective on the processes which induce, inhibit or otherwise affect autoantibodies in humans.Useful to Researchers and Clinicians: Chapters generally include methods of detection, pathogenic role, factors in pathogenicity and genetics as well as clinical utility with disease associations and frequencies.

    • 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.

    • Mucosal Vaccines

      • 1st Edition
      • October 14, 1996
      • Hiroshi Kiyono
      • Hiroshi Kiyono + 2 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This comprehensive, authoritative treatise covers all aspects of mucosal vaccines including their development, mechanisms of action, molecular/cellular aspects, and practical applications. The contributing authors and editors of this one-of-a-kind book are very well known in their respective fields. Mucosal Vaccines is organized in a unique format in which basic, clinical, and practical aspects of the mucosal immune system for vaccine development are described and discussed. This project is endorsed by the Society for Mucosal Immunology.

    • Advances in Immunology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 61
      • February 6, 1996
      • English
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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
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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

    • Immunopharmacology of Platelets

      • 1st Edition
      • July 5, 1995
      • M. Joseph
      • English
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      Platelets have long been the subject of much investigation in the areas of vascular physiology, biochemistry, immunology and physiopathology. Their ability to react to environmental stimuli, to modify their shape and metabolism despite being anuclear, has fascinated scientists.This volume looks specifically at the involvement of blood platelets outside their 'classical' field of application, in the physiopathological mechanics of allergy and inflammation. The coverage includes the role of platelets in bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases and in tumour cell interactions.

    • Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis

      • 1st Edition
      • March 16, 1995
      • B. Henderson + 2 more
      • English
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      Rheumatoid arthritis is a bewilderingly complex disease involving the interactions of many, and varied, cell populations and multiple families of low and high molecular mass mediators. We are only slowly beginning to understand the mechanisms that produce the local and systematic pathology clinically recognized as rheumatoid arthritis. Increasingly, use is being made of experimental models of this disease in an effort to test hypotheses about putative pathological mechanisms and to investigate the effect of novel therapeutic agents. A major section of this book covers these experimental models in great detail from their development through to reviews of the most recent information on each model.Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis brings together a group of eminent researchers from the fields of clinical rheumatology, pathology, experimental pathology, immunology, connective tissue biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology and developmental biology to describe the current views of the cellular and humoral mechanisms that drive the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis and experimental models of rheumatoid arthritis.

    • Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science

      • 1st Edition
      • July 14, 1995
      • Richard B. Gallagher + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Immunology has progressed in spectacular fashion in the last four decades. Studies of the response to infectious agents, transplanted organs and tumours (and the potential to manipulate that response), and the study of the immune system as a model system in molecular cell biology have yielded dramatic advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of immunity.The field has attracted a continuous stream of the brightest theoretical and experimental scientists for over forty years. This book conveys the philosophies and approaches of sixteen of the most successful of these scientists in the form of a series of narratives that describe the circumstances that led to a major discovery in immunology. Contributors not only recall an exciting period of research that helped shape modern immunology, but set it in the personal context of place and time. Jacques Miller, for example, describes the discovery of the function of the thymus, Rolf Zinkernagel explains how experiments on viral immunity led to the discovery of MHC restriction and Susumu Tonegawa provides an account of how antibody gene structure was defined. Medically-important discoveries include descriptions of early studies of autoimmunity by Noel Rose and of tumour immunology by George and Eva Klein.Far from being a collection of disinterested, historical accounts, this volume comprises a series of passionately biographical, personal essays that provide an unusually intimate insight into the scientific process. This book will be essential, and fascinating, reading for all those with an interest in immunology, and in the life sciences in general. For students and teachers, this will provide the background necessary for a true understanding of immunology, and to place subsequent discoveries in perspective.

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