Main description:

"Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology" is a brand-new addition to the internationally best-selling "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series". This volume offers a highly visual presentation of essential immunology material, with all the popular features of the series: 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. "Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology" 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. A companion Website features the fully searchable online text, 300 additional USMLE-style questions, an Image Bank, and a library of individual image components from which instructors can assemble their own figures in PowerPoint.

Contents:

UNIT 1: SENSE OF BEING: THE CONCEPT OF SELF AND SELF/NON-SELF RECOGNITION Chapter 1: The Need for Self Recognition Chapter 2: Antigens and Receptors UNIT II: THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM Chapter 3: Barriers to Infection Chapter 4: Cells of the Innate Immune System Chapter 5: Innate Immune Function UNIT III: THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM Chapter 6: Molecules of Adaptive Immunity Chapter 7: Cells and Organs Chapter 8: Generation of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors Chapter 9: Lymphocyte Development: B Cells and T Cells Chapter 10: Lymphocyte Activation Chapter 11: Lymphocyte Function Chapter 12: Regulation of Adaptive Responses UNIT IV: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF IMMUNITY Chapter 13: The Well Patient, Or How Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Maintain Health Chapter 14: Hypersensitivity States Chapter 15: Immunodeficiency Chapter 16: Autoimmunity Chapter 17: Transplantation Chapter 18: Immune Pharmacotherapy Chapter 19: Tumor Immunity Chapter 20: Measurement of Immune Function NOTE: Each chapter includes an Overview, a Chapter Summary, Study Questions, and Answers and Explanations.