Last edition Elsevier Meticulously reviewed and updated for today’s medical students, Basic Immunology, 6th Edition, is a concise text expertly written by the same distinguished author team as the best-selling, comprehensive text, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. This focused, easy-to-understand volume uses full-color illustrations and clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases-all designed to help students master this complex topic in the most efficient, effective manner possible.
Last Edition
ISBN 13:h9780323549431
Imprint:hElsevier
Language:hEnglish
Authors:hAbul K. Abbas
Pub Date:h04/2019
Pages:h336
Illus:h185 in full color
Weight:h790.000 grams
Size:h191 X 235 mm
Product Type:hSoftcover
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- • Concise, clinically focused content is logically organized by mechanism for efficient mastery of the material.
- • Features an appendix of clinical cases and CD molecules.
- • Includes numerous full-color illustrations, useful tables, and chapter outlines.
- • Focus questions within each chapter are ideal for self-assessment and review.
- • Key points bolded throughout the text make it easy to locate important information.
- • Presents information in a format and style that maximizes usefulness to students and teachers studying medicine, allied health fields, and biology.
- • Fully updated content equips you with the latest relevant advances in immunology.
- • Revised and updated artwork enhances your visual learning of important principles and reduces the excessive factual details found in larger textbooks.
- • Twelve brand-new animations available on Student Consult help further explain complex concepts.
- • Student Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience gives you access to the text, figures, images, glossary of immunology terms, self-assessment questions, and references on a variety of devices.
- Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California;
- Andrew H. H. Lichtman, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Shiv Pillai, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts
- Introduction to the Immune System
- Nomenclature, General Properties, and Components
- 2 Innate Immunity
- The Early Defense Against Infections
- 3 Antigen Capture and Presentation to Lymphocytes
- What Lymphocytes See
- 4 Antigen Recognition in the Adaptive Immune System
- Structure of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors and Development of Immune Repertoires
- 5 T Cell-Mediated Immunity
- Activation of T Lymphocytes
- 6 Effector Mechanisms of T Cell-Mediated Immunity
- Functions of T Cells in Host Defense
- 7 Humoral Immune Responses
- Activation of B Lymphocytes and Production of Antibodies
- 8 Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity
- Elimination of Extracellular Microbes and Toxins
- 9 Immunological Tolerance and Autoimmunity
- Self-Nonself Discrimination in the Immune System and Its Failure
- 10 Immune Responses Against Tumors and Transplants
- Immunity to Noninfectious Transformed and Foreign Cells
- 11 Hypersensitivity
- Disorders Caused by Immune Responses
- 12 Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies
- Diseases Caused by Defective Immunity
- Selected Readings
- Appendix I Glossary
- Appendix II Cytokines
- Appendix III Principal Features of Selected CD Molecules
- APPENDIX IV Clinical Cases
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