NMC Library

Immunity /

Paul, William E.,

Immunity / William E. Paul. - xiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Immunology -- 1. Defense and danger -- 2. Tracing an immune response -- 3. The laws of immunology: universality, tolerance, and appropriateness -- 4. Growing up and learning immunology -- Part 2. The first law: universality -- 5. Vaccines and serum therapy -- 6. How is specificity achieved? -- 7. Immunology's "eureka": clonal selection -- 8. How does each lymphocyte develop a distinct receptor? -- 9. B cells and T cells recognize different types of antigens -- 10. My foray into the specificity problem -- 11. Genes and immune response -- 12. The Laboratory of Immunology and the T-cell receptor -- Part 3. The second law: tolerance -- 13. What is tolerance? -- 14. How does tolerance develop? -- 15. Regulatory T cells and the prevention of autoimmunity -- Part 4. The third law: appropriateness -- 16. Different structures, different functions -- 17. Specific types of infections, specific types of T-cell responses -- 18. Our discovery of IL-4 and the cells that make it -- 19. CD8 T cells: killer cells and friends -- 20. Dendritic cells: the cells that interpret the infectious threat -- Part 5. How did the immune system evolve? -- 21. An "ancient" immune response controls "modern" immunity -- 22. The microbiome and innate immunity -- 23. Evolution of the immune system and innate lymphoid cells -- Part 6. AIDS, autoimmunity, allergy, cancer, and transplantation -- 24. The HIV epidemic and the Office of AIDS Research -- 25. How the immune system causes rheumatoid arthritis and lupus -- 26. Allergy and asthma -- 27. Interleukin-4 and allergy -- 28. Can the immune system control cancer? -- 29. New parts for old: bone marrow and organ transplantation -- 30. Julien -- Conclusion. The future of immunology.

9781421418018 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421418010 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015002906


Immunity.
Immune system.
Immunologic diseases.

RC582 / .P38 2015

616.07/9

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