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Title Medical immunology / edited by Gabriel Virella
Edition 5th ed., rev. and expanded
Published New York : M. Dekker, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 656 pages) : illustrations
Series BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
Contents Cells and tissues involved in the immune response / Gabriel Virella and Jean-Michel Goust -- Major histocompatibility complex / Jean-Michel Boust -- Induction of an immune response : antigens, lymphocytes, and accessory cells / Gabriel Virella and Barbara E. Bierer -- Immunoglobulin structure / Gabriel Virella -- Biosynthesis, metabolism, and biological properties of immunoglobulins / Gabriel Virella -- Complement system / Robert Boackle -- Lymphocyte ontogeny and membrane markers / Virginia M. Litwin and Jean-Michel Goust -- Cell-mediated immunity / Barbara E. Bierer, Jean-Michel Goust, and Gabriel Virella -- Humoral immune response and its induction by active immunization / Gabriel Virella -- Phagocytic cells / Gabriel Virella -- Infections and immunity / Gabriel Virella -- Diagnostic immunology / Gabriel Virella and Virginia M. Litwin -- Tolerance and autoimmunity / George C. Tsokos, Jean-Michel Goust, and Gabriel Virella -- Organ-specific autoimmune diseases / Gabriel Virella and Jean-Michel Goust -- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus / George C. Tsokos and Jean-Michel Goust -- Rheumatoid arthritis / Jean-Michel Goust and Gabriella Virella -- Hypersensitivity reactions / Gabriel Virella -- IgE-mediated (immediate) hypersensitivity / Jean-Michel Goust and Albert F. Finn, Jr -- Immunohematology / Gabriel Virella and Mary Ann Spivey -- Immune complex diseases / Gabriel Virella and George C. Tsokos -- Immune system modulators / Philip D. Hall, Jean-Michel Goust, and Gabriel Virella -- Transplantation immunology / Gabriel Virella, Richard Knight, and Jonathan Bromberg -- Tumor immunology / Sebastiano Gattoni-Celli -- Malignancies of the immune system / Gabriel Virella and Jean-Michel Goust -- Diagnosis of immunodeficiency diseases / Gabriel Virella and John Sleasman -- Primary immunodeficiency diseases / Gabriel Virella and John Sleasman -- AIDS and other acquired immunodeficiency diseases / Gabriel Virella
Summary This work covers recent advances in basic and clinical immunology - emphasizing diagnostic and clinical applications as well as discussions of the principles and strategies for modulation of the immune response and treatment of hypersensitivity, autoimmune, and immune deficiency diseases
Notes Revised edition of: Introduction to medical immunology. 4th ed. ©1998
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Clinical immunology.
Immunology.
Immunity.
Immunologic diseases.
Immunity
Allergy and Immunology
Immune System Diseases
MEDICAL -- Immunology.
Immunologic diseases
Immunity
Clinical immunology
Immunology
Einführung
Immunologie
Form Electronic book
Author Virella, Gabriel, 1943-
ISBN 0585419213
9780585419213
0824745094
9780824745097
OTHER TI Introduction to medical immunology