In defense of self : how the immune system really works / / William R. Clark.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | vi. 265 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.