Presents information in a format and style that maximizes usefulness to students and teachers studying medicine, allied health fields, and biology. Provides additional online features such as answers to in-book chapter review questions, helpful animations, and self-assessment questions. Features a highly readable writing style and practical organization, now with fully revised content and updated images to reflect recent important advances in today's understanding of the immune system. Provides top-notch instruction from experienced teachers, course directors, and lecturers led by well-known editor and author Dr. Emphasizes clinical aspects of immunology, including disease pathogenesis, the development of novel therapies based on basic science, and an appendix of clinical cases for real-world application. This focused, easy-to-understand volume uses full-color illustrations and clinical images, useful tables, and practical features such as Summary Point boxes, end-of-chapter review questions, glossary terms, and clinical cases-all designed to help students master this complex topic in the most efficient, effective manner possible. Meticulously reviewed and updated for today's medical students, Basic Immunology, 6th Edition, is a concise text expertly written by the same distinguished author team as the best-selling, comprehensive text, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. Lichtman, Shiv Pillai illustrations by David L. Principal features of selected cd molecules -Ībul K. Hypersensitivity : disorders caused by immune responses -Ĭongenital and acquired immunodeficiencies : diseases caused by defective immunity. Immunology of tumors and transplantation : immune responses to cancer cells and normal foreign cells.
Immunologic tolerance and autoimmunity : self-nonself discrimination in the immune system and its failure. Humoral immune responses : activation of b lymphocytes and production of antibodies -Įffector mechanisms of humoral immunity : elimination of extracellular microbes and toxins. Mediated immunity : activation of t lymphocytes -Įffector mechanisms of t cell-mediated immunity : functions of t cells in host defense.
Innate immunity : the early defense against infections -Īntigen capture and presentation to lymphocytes : what lymphocytes see -Īntigen recognition in the adaptive immune system : structure of lymphocyte antigen receptors and development of immune repertoires. Introduction to the immune system : nomenclature, general properties, and components. Revised edition of: Basic immunology : functions and disorders of the immune system / Abul K. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. Includes an Enhanced eBook version with purchase. Contains numerous features designed to help students understand key immunologic concepts: high-quality illustrations, practical tables, chapter outlines, bolded key points, and focus questions in every chapter for self-assessment and review.