BookThao Doan, Roger Melvold, Susan Viselli, Carl Waltenbaugh.
Summary: 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. This book 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.
Contents:
The need for self-recognition
Antigens and receptors
Barriers to infection
Cells of the innate immune system
Innate immune function
Molecules of adaptive immunity
Cells and organs
Generation of immune diversity : lymphocyte antigen receptors
Lymphocyte development
Lymphocyte activation
Lymphocyte effector functions
Regulation of adaptive responses
The well patient : how innate and adaptive immune responses
Maintain health
Hypersensitivity reactions
Immune deficiency
Autoimmunity
Transplantation
Immune pharmacotherapy
Tumor immunity
Measurement of immune function.