Samter's immunologic diseases / K. Frank Austen [and three others], editors ; Jonathan Pine, acquisition editor ; Raymond E. Reter, developmental editor ; Steven P. Martin, production editor ; Christine Jenny, cover designer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austen, K. Frank, editor.

Pine, Jonathan, editor.

Reter, Raymond E., editor.

Martin, Steven P., editor.

Jenny, Christine, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immunologic diseases.

Immunology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1355 p.)

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The thoroughly updated Sixth Edition of this classic two-volume work continues to provide a comprehensive overview of immunology, its clinical applications, immunopathology, and allergy. A text revised and updated throughout facilitates an understanding of the host mechanisms in immunologic diseases. The strength of this text is its clinically oriented emphasis on immunologic diseases and differential approach to symptoms and syndromes. This edition features an increased clinical coverage and is an essential reference for all clinical immunologists, rheumatologists, and allergists. It will include a CD-ROM bound in the back of the book. A Brandon-Hill recommended title.

Contents:

""COVER ""; ""COPYRIGHT ""; ""Editors""; ""DEDICATION ""; ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""SECTION I - RECOGNITION: INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY""; ""1 - INNATE IMMUNITY LINKAGES TO ADAPTIVE RESPONSES""; ""2 - ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM""; ""3 - MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE COMPLEX STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION""; ""4 - T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTORS""; ""5 - T-CELL BIOLOGY AND THE THYMUS""; ""6 - ANTIGEN PROCESSING AND PRESENTATION""; ""7 - IMMUNOGENICITY AND ANTIGENICITY""; ""8 - LYMPHOCYTE SIGNALING""

""9 - T-LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION, COSTIMULATION, AND TOLERANCE: SIGNALS,MECHANISMS, AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS""""10 - CYTOKINES AND TYPE 1 IMMUNITY""; ""11 - CYTOKINE REGULATION OF TYPE 2 IMMUNITY""; ""12 - APOPTOSIS AND THE IMMUNE RESPONSE""; ""13 - ANTIBODIES AND THEIR RECEPTORS""; ""14 - BIOLOGY OF B CELLS""; ""15 - ADHESION MOLECULES""; ""16 - CHEMOKINES AND CHEMOKINE RECEPTORS""; ""17 - HEMATOPOIETIC CYTOKINES""; ""SECTION II - EFFECTOR MECHANISMS: INNATE AND ADAPTIVE""; ""18 - T-LYMPHOCYTE EFFECTOR ACTIVITY""; ""19 - NATURAL KILLER CELLS""; ""20 - NEUTROPHILS""

""21 - MONOCYTES AND MACROPHAGES""""22 - EOSINOPHILS""; ""23 - BASOPHILS""; ""24 - BIOLOGY OF THE MAST CELL""; ""25 - IMMUNE COMPLEXES""; ""26 - COMPLEMENT SYSTEM""; ""27 - ARACHIDONIC ACID PATHWAYS""; ""SECTION III - PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCIES""; ""28 - PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCIES OF LYMPHOCYTES""; ""29 - PHAGOCYTE DISORDERS""; ""30 - COMPLEMENT IN DISEASE: INHERITED AND ACQUIRED COMPLEMENTDEFICIENCIES""; ""31 - LYMPHOCYTIC LYMPHOMAS AND HODGKIN'S DISEASE""; ""SECTION IV - PROLIFERATION DISORDERS OF IMMUNOLOGIC CELLS""; ""32 - MULTIPLE MYELOMA""; ""33 - MACROGLOBULINEMIA""

""48 - DIABETES MELLITUS """"49 - AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE, ADDISON DISEASE, AND AUTOIMMUNE POLYGLANDULAR SYNDROMES ""; ""50 - IMMUNOLOGIC RENAL DISEASE""; ""51 - MYASTHENIA GRAVIS""; ""52 - AUTOIMMUNE BLISTERING MUCOCUTANEOUS DISEASES""; ""53 - IMMUNE FUNCTION IN OCULAR INFLAMMATORY DISEASE""; ""54 - AUTOIMMUNE HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES""; ""55 - IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT""; ""56 - MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS""; ""57 - AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA""; ""58 - IMMUNE THROMBOCYTOPENIA""; ""59 - BLOOD GROUPS, IMMUNOLOGIC HAZARDS OF TRANSFUSION, ANDHEMOLYTIC DISEASE OF THE NEWBORN""

""60 - IMMUNOLOGIC ASPECTS OF FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4698-7416-4

OCLC:

54866086