Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology is a brand-new addition
to the internationally best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews
Series. This volume offers a highly visual presentation of essential
immunology material, with all the popular features of the series:
over 300 full-color annotated illustrations, an outline format,
chapter summaries, review questions, and case studies that link basic
science to real-life clinical situations. Lippincott's Illustrated
Reviews: Immunology can be used as a review text for a short
immunology course, or paired with Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews:
Microbiology for a combined microbiology/immunology course.

UNIT I: Sense of Being: The Concept of Self and Self / Nonself
Recognition
Chapter 1: The Need for Self Recognition
Chapter 2: Antigens and Receptors

UNIT II: The Innate Immune System
Chapter 3: Barriers to Infection
Chapter 4: Cells of the Innate Immune System
Chapter 5: Innate Immune Function

UNIT III: The Adaptive Immune System
Chapter 6: Molecules of Adaptive Immunity
Chapter 7: Cell and Organs
Chapter 8: Generation of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen
Receptors
Chapter 9: Lymphocyte Development
Chapter 10: Lymphocyte Activation
Chapter 11: Lymphocyte Function
Chapter 12: Regulation of Adaptive Responses

UNIT IV: Clinical Aspects of immunity
Chapter 13: The Well Patient: How Innate and Adaptive Immune
Responses Maintain Health
Chapter 14: Hypersensitivity Reactions
Chapter 15: Immune Deficiency
Chapter 16: Autoimmunity
Chapter 17: Transplantation
Chapter 18: Immune Pharmacotherapy
Chapter 19: Tumor Immunity
Chapter 20: Measurement of Immune Function

Credits

Index