In defense of self [online resource] : how the immune system really works / William R. Clark.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780195311266 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195311264 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780195336634 (alk. paper); 0195336631 (alk. paper); 9780195335552 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0195335554 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Immunology | Immunity | Immunologic diseases | Immune System -- physiology | Immune System -- physiopathology | ImmunotherapyDDC classification: - Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access onlineOxford scholarship online Business and Management
Includes index.
What is an immune system? -- Antibodies -- How do antibodies work? -- T cells: the second arm of adaptive immunity -- The immune response to infectious disease: all out war! -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: microbial immunopatholgoy -- Vaccines: how they work, why sometimes they don't, and what we can do about it --When the walls come tumbling down: HIV/AIDS -- When the walls come tumbling down: primary immune deficiencies -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: hypersensitivity and allergy -- The immune system and cancer -- Autoimmunity -- Organ transplantation -- First defense: the immune system and bioterrorism.
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