Immunology for Medical Students, 3rd Edition

Description

Comprehensive yet concise and easy to read, this updated edition of Immunology for Medical Students effectively explains complex immunology topics and their relevance in clinical practice. Boasting just the right amount of detail for today's busy medical student, it delivers state-of-the-art coverage of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge in the field. Detailed and explanatory illustrations, combined with clinically relevant examples and cases, offer a unique understanding of the human immune system and its role in protecting us from disease.

• Student Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices. You'll also access 100 multiple-choice questions to enhance your understanding of the material.
• Features 17 new clinical boxes as well as critical revisions to 25 of the clinical boxes featured in the previous edition, providing relevant, practical examples of cases commonly encountered in day-to-day practice.
• Presents new material on T Cell Subsets, the molecular and cellular processes involved in their selection and differentiation, and how this knowledge is already translating into clinical developments.
• Includes a brand-new chapter titled Regulation of the Immune System. 
  Table of Contents:
  

  Section 1: Introduction

  
  Introduction to the Immune System

  
  Basic Concepts and Components of the Immune System

  
  Section 2: Antigen-Recognition Molecules

  3. Introduction to Antigen Recognition

  4. Antigens and Antibody Structure

  5. Antibody-Antigen Interaction

  6. Antibody Diversity

  7. The T-Cell Receptor

  8. Major Histocompatibility Complex

  9. Review of Antigen Recognition

  
  Section 3: Physiology

  10. Antigen Processing and Presentation

  11. Lymphocyte Activation

  12. Hematopoiesis

  13. The Organs and Tissues of the Immune System

  14. B-Cell Development

  15. T-Cell Development

  16. T-Cell Interactions and T-Cell Help

  17. Immunological Memory and Homeostasis

  18. Regulation of the Immune System

  19. Brief Review of Immune Physiology

   

  Section 4: Innate Immunity

  20. Constitutive Defenses Including Complement

  21. Phagocytes

  22. Killing in the Immune System

  23. Inflammation

  24. Cytokines in the Immune System

  
  Section 5: Immune System in Health and Disease

  25. Infections and Vaccines

  26. Hypersensitivity Reactions

  27. Immediate Hypersensitivity (Type I): Allergy

  28. How Autoimmune Disease Develops

  29. Antibody-Mediated Hypersensitivity (Type II)

  30. Immune Complex Disease (Type III Hypersensitivity)

  31. Delayed Hypersensitivity (Type IV) and Review of Hypersensitivity Reactions

  32. Primary Immunodeficiency

  33. Secondary Immunodeficiency

  34. Transplantation

  35. Tumor Immunology

  36. Bio Pharmaceuticals