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| Title: | Leading-Edge Immunology Research
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| Author: | Barbara A Veskler (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1594547777 : 9781594547775 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Weight: | .594 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - July 2006 |
| List Price: | 107.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Immunology: Medical research |
Immunology is the study of the body’s protection from foreign macromolecules or invading organisms and the responses to them. These invaders include viruses, bacteria, protozoa or even larger parasites. In addition, immune responses are developed against our own proteins (and other molecules) in auto-immunity and against our own aberrant cells in tumour immunity. The first line of defence against foreign organisms are barrier tissues such as the skin that stop the entry of organism into our bodies. A second line of defence is the specific or adaptive immune system which may take days to respond to a primary invasion (that is infection by an organism that has not hitherto been seen). This book brings together new research from around the globe dealing with this extremely important subject.
Preface; Revisiting Antibody Formation to Antigens from Extra-Cellular and Intracellular Infectious Pathogens; Activation of Peritoneal Macrophage and B Cell Subsets by Porion of Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 for Mucosal Immune Response; Somatic Immunoglobulin Hypermutation in the Memory B Cell Response; Acquired Deficiency of CD55 and CD59 in Autoimmune Hemocytopenias; Sensing the Self: Structure, Genetics, Biological Function and Possible Disease Associations of KIR Genes and Molecules; The CD28:B7 Family Costimulatory Molecules in Alograft Rejection and Tolerance; Index.
