TY  - BOOK
AU  - Abbas, Abul K.
AU  - Lichtman, Andrew H.
TI  - Basic immunology: functions and disorders of the immune system 
SN  - 9781416046882
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia, PA
PB  - Saunders/Elsevier
KW  - Immunity
KW  - Immune System
KW  -  physiology
KW  - Hypersensitivity
KW  - Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index; Introduction to the immune system: the nomenclature, general propert ies, and components of the immune system -- Innate immunity: the early defense against infections -- Antigen capture and presentation to lymph octyes: what lymphocytes see -- Antigen recognition in the adaptive imm une system: structure of lymphocyte antigen receptors and the developme nt of immune repertoires --; Cell-mediated immune responses: activation of T lymphocytes by cell- associated microbes -- Effector mechanisms of cell-mediated immunity : eradication of intracellular microbes -- Humoral immune responses: acti vation of B lymphocytes and production of antibodies -- Effector mechan isms of humoral immunity: the elimination of extracellular microbes and toxins --; Immunological tolerance and autoimmunity: self-nonself discriminatio n in the immune system and its failure -- Immune responses against tumo rs and transplants: immunity to noninfectious transformed and foreign c ells -- Hypersensitivity: disorders caused by immune responses -- Conge nital and acquired immunodeficiencies: diseases caused by defective imm une responses
ER  -