Essential Clinical Immunology (Cambridge Medicine (Paperback))

Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2009
EAN 9780521704892, ISBN10: 0521704898

Paperback, 372 pages, 25.3 x 17.7 x 1.6 cm
Language: English

The ways in which we can better understand cancer, HIV, and other autoimmune diseases through clinical immunology are of great interest to practitioners from the student level to the advanced PhD. Designed as an introduction for practitioners and residents. This book focuses on the clinical disease-state level of immunology, beginning with the basic concepts and then detailing the immunological aspects of various disease states involving major organs of the body. It explores how we can better understand disease and its treatment through clinical immunology; each chapter concludes with patterns for future research.

1. Basic components of the immune system John B. Zabriskie
2. Immunological tendencies John B. Zabriskie
3. Immune regulation Nina Bhardwaj, Thomas Waldmann, and David O'Neill
4. Immunological aspects of infection Vincent A. Fischetti, Kumar Visvanathan, Christopher M. MacIsaac, and William W. Hall
5. Immunological aspects of immunodeficiency diseases Dinakantha S. Kumararatne
6. Autoimmunity Westley H. Reeves
7. B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders Nicholas Chiorazzi and Manlio Ferrarini
8. Immunological aspects of HIV infection Stan Read and Anders G. Vahlne
9. Immunology of allergy and anaphylaxis Paul M. Ehrlich and Jonathan D. Field
10. Immunological aspects of skin diseases James G. Kreuger and Lisa Zaba
11. Immunological aspects of rheumatic diseases Dalit Ashany and Mary K. Crow
12. Immunology of cardiac diseases John B. Zabriskie, Allan Gibofsky, Westley C. VanVoorhis, Fredrick S. Buchner, and Noel Rose
13. Immunology of chest diseases Carl F. Nathan and Ernesto Munoz
14. Immunological aspects of gastrointestinal disease Lloyd Mayer and Christine Moung
15. Immunological aspects of endocrine disease Jean-Francois Bach
16. Immunological aspects of neurological disease Jacqueline Friedman
17. Immunological aspects of renal disease Gil Cu and John B. Zabriskie.

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