Book Details

SECTION 1 Introduction
1. Introduction to the Immune System
2. 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. Organs and Tissues of the Immune System
14. B-Cell Development
15. T-Cell Development
16. T-Cell Interactions and T-Cell Help
17. Immunologic 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. Biopharmaceuticals