Cellular and Molecular Immunology International Edition (9th Edition)

Description

Well-written, readable, and superbly illustrated, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, 10th Edition, continues the tradition of excellence established through multiple editions of this bestselling text. Offering an unparalleled introduction to this complex field, it retains a practical, clinical focus while updating and revising all content to ensure clarity and comprehension, bringing readers fully up to date with new and emerging information in this challenging area. It’s an ideal resource for medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as a trusted reference for physicians and scientists.

Key Features

• Highlights the implications of immunologic science for the management of human disease, emphasizing clinical relevance throughout.
• Employs a highly accessible writing style that makes difficult concepts easier to understand, and provides clear implications of immunologic science to the management of human disease and clinical practice.
• Features updates from cover to cover, including new information on intracellular sensors of innate immunity, therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies, regulation of migration events during T cell-B cell interactions, regulatory and transcriptional events in germinal center formation, immunology of infectious diseases including coronaviruses, human immunodeficiency disorders, and immunology of HIV.
• Provides a highly visual, full-color description of the key immunologic and molecular processes with a fully updated, comprehensive, and consistent art program, including many new  and extensively revised illustrations.
• Helps readers grasp the details of experimental observations that form the basis for the science of immunology at the molecular, cellular, and whole-organism levels and draw the appropriate conclusions.
• Includes summary boxes that assist with rapid review and mastery of key material.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter1 Properties and Overview of Immune Responses
2. Chapter2 Cells and Tissues of the Immune System
3. Chapter3 Leukocyte Circulation and Migration into Tissues
4. Chapter4 Innate Immunity
5. Chapter5 Antibodies and Antigens
6. Chapter6 Antigen Presentation to T Lymphocytes and the Functions of MHC Molecules
7. Chapter7 Immune Receptors and Signal Transduction
8. Chapter8 Lymphocyte Development and Antigen Receptor Gene Rearrangement
9. Chapter9 Activation of T Lymphocytes
10. Chapter 10 Differentiation and Functions of CD4+ Effector T Cells
11. Chapter 11 Differentiation and Functions of CD8+ Effector T Cells
12. Chapter 12 B Cell Activation and Antibody Production
13. Chapter 13 Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity
14. Chapter 14 Specialized Immunity at Epithelial Barriers and in Immune Privileged Tissues
15. Chapter 15 Immunologic Tolerance and Autoimmunity
16. Chapter 16 Immunity to Microbes
17. Chapter 17 Transplantation Immunology
18. Chapter 18 Immunity to Tumors
19. Chapter 19 Hypersensitivity Disorders
20. Chapter 20 Allergy
21. Chapter 21 Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies
22. Appendix I Glossary
23. Appendix II Cytokines
24. Appendix III Principle Features of Selected CD Molecules
25. Appendix IV Laboratory Techniques Commonly Used in Immunology

Authors Biography

Abul K. Abbas, MBBS, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California ;

Andrew H. Lichtman, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts and

Shiv Pillai, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts