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1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Immunology. Defense and Danger -- Tracing an Immune Response -- The Laws of Immunology: Universality, Tolerance, and Appropriateness -- Growing Up and Learning Immunology. |
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Part 2. The First Law: Universality. Vaccines and Serum Therapy -- How Is Specificity Achieved? -- Immunology's "Eureka": Clonal Selection -- How Does Each Lymphocyte Develop a Distinct Receptor? -- B Cells and T Cells Recognize Different Types of Antigens -- My Foray into the Specificity Problem -- Genes And Immune Response -- The Laboratory of Immunology and the T-Cell Receptor. |
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Part 3. The Second Law: Tolerance -- What Is Tolerance? -- How Does Tolerance Develop? -- Regulatory T Cells and the Prevention of Autoimmunity. |
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Part 4. The Third Law: Appropriateness -- Different Structures, Different Functions -- Specific Types of Infections, Specific Types of T-Cell Responses -- Our Discovery of IL-4 and the Cells That Make It -- CD8 T Cells: Killer Cells and Friends -- Dendritic Cells: The Cells That Interpret the Infectious Threat. |
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Part 5. How Did The Immune System Evolve? -- An "Ancient" Immune Response Controls "Modern" Immunity -- The Microbiome and Innate Immunity -- Evolution of the Immune System and Innate Lymphoid Cells. |
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Part 6. AIDS, Autoimmunity, Allergy, Cancer, and Transplantation -- The HIV Epidemic and the Office Of AIDS Research -- How the Immune System Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus -- Allergy and Asthma -- Interleukin-4 and Allergy -- Can the Immune System Control Cancer? -- New Parts for Old: Bone Marrow and Organ Transplantation -- Julien. |
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English. |
| Subject |
Immunity.
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Immune system.
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Immunologic diseases.
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Immune system.
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Immunity |
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Immune System Phenomena |
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Immune System Diseases |
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Immune System Diseases -- immunology |
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Immunité.
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Système immunitaire.
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Maladies immunologiques.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Immune system
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Immunity
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Immunologic diseases
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paul, William E. Immunity 9781421418018 (DLC) 2015002906 (OCoLC)900869876 |
| ISBN |
9781421418025 (electronic bk.) |
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1421418029 (electronic bk.) |
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9781421418018 |
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1421418010 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000056989600 |
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DEBBG BV043959508 |
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DEBBG BV044060386 |
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DEBSZ 481306978 |
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