Samter's immunologic diseases.

Samter's immunologic diseases. Immunologic diseases - 6th edition / K. Frank Austen ... [et al.]. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2001. - 2 v. (xvii, 1254, 64 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Volume I
Section I. Recognition: Innate and adaptive immunity
Innate immunity: linkages to adaptive responses
Architecture of the immune system
MHC: Structure and function
T-cell Biology and the Thymus
Antigen processing and presentation
e.tc

Section II: Effector mechanisms : innate and adaptive
T-Lymphocyte effector activity
Natural killer cells
Neutrophils
Monocytes an macrophages
e.tc

Section III: primary immunodeficiency
Primary immunodeficiency of lymphocytes
phagocyte disorders
Complement in disease: Inherited and acquired complement deficiencies

Section IV: Proliferation disorders of immunologic cells
Lymphocytic lympomas and Hodgkin's disease
Multiple myeloma
Macroglobulinemia
Amyloidosis
e.tc

Volume II
Section V: Systemic diseases
Rheumatoid arthritis
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Sjogren's syndrome
Systemic Sclerosis
e.tc

Section VI: Organic-specific diseases
Diabetes mellitus
Autoimmune thyroid disease, Addison disease and autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
Immunologic renal disease
Myasthenia Gravis
e.tc

Section VII. Allergic diseases
Allergens
Genetics of Allergic Disease
Allergic Rhinitis
Anaphylactic syndrome
Asthma
e.tc

Section VIII: Evasion, activation and ineffective immunity
Human immunodeficiency virus
Epstein- Barr Virus
Tuberclosis and leprosy
Cryopathies
Viruses
Lyme disease
e.tc

Section IX: Transplantation
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Tissue and solid organ allograft rejection
Immunology of Xenotransplantation

Section X: Therapeutic immunology
Calcineurin as a thrapeutic target
T-cell antigen and costimulatory receptors as therapeutic targets
Cytokines and cancer immunotherapy
e.tc


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