Description
Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology offers a highly visual presentation of essential immunology material, with all the popular features of the series: over 300 full-color annotated illustrations, an outline format, chapter summaries, review questions, and case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology can be used as a review text for a short immunology course, or paired with Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology for a combined microbiology/immunology course.
Features
--NEW ANCILLARY: Bank of 5-10 animations
--ANCILLARY: 300 USMLE-style questions in a quizbank for students
--ANCILLARY: Fully searchable online text on thePoint
--ANCILLARY: Image bank
--FACULTY ANCILLARY: Library of individual image components from which instructors can assemble their own figures in PowerPoint.
--ANCILLARY: 300 USMLE-style questions in a quizbank for students
--ANCILLARY: Fully searchable online text on thePoint
--ANCILLARY: Image bank
--FACULTY ANCILLARY: Library of individual image components from which instructors can assemble their own figures in PowerPoint.
About the Author(s)
- Thao Doan MD
- Medical Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Abbott Laboratories, Waukegan, IL
- Roger Melvold PhD
- Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND
- Susan Viselli PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL
- Carl Waltenbaugh PhD
- Professor, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Specs
- Edition: Second
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9781451109375
- Trim Size: 10.875 x 8.375
- Pages: 384
- Pub Date: Aug 1, 2012
- Weight: 2.0
Table of contents
UNIT 1: SENSE OF BEING: THE CONCEPT OF SELF AND SELF/NON-SELF RECOGNITION Chapter 1: The Need for Self Recognition Chapter 2: Antigens and Receptors UNIT II: THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM Chapter 3: Barriers to Infection Chapter 4: Cells of the Innate Immune System Chapter 5: Innate Immune Function UNIT III: THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE SYSTEM Chapter 6: Molecules of Adaptive Immunity Chapter 7: Cells and Organs Chapter 8: Generation of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors Chapter 9: Lymphocyte Development: B Cells and T Cells Chapter 10: Lymphocyte Activation Chapter 11: Lymphocyte Function Chapter 12: Regulation of Adaptive Responses UNIT IV: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF IMMUNITY Chapter 13: The Well Patient, Or How Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Maintain Health Chapter 14: Hypersensitivity States Chapter 15: Immunodeficiency Chapter 16: Autoimmunity Chapter 17: Transplantation Chapter 18: Immune Pharmacotherapy Chapter 19: Tumor Immunity Chapter 20: Measurement of Immune Function NOTE: Each chapter includes an Overview, a Chapter Summary, Study Questions, and Answers and Explanations.
