Clinical immunology : principles and practice /
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| Imprint: | St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby-Year Book, c1996. |
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| Description: | 2 v. (xxviii, 2228 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2381360 |
Table of Contents:
- Volume 1
- Section 1. Principles of immune recognition
- The human immune response
- Cells and tissues of the immune system
- Lymphocyte adhesion and trafficking
- B cells antigen receptor genes, gene products and co-receptors
- T cells antigen receptor genes, gene products and co-receptors
- The major histocompatibility complex
- Antigens and antigen presentation
- T cell development
- B cell development and differentiation
- T lymphocyte activation and inactivation
- Immunological tolerance and apoptosis
- Cytokines and cytokine receptors
- Chemokines and chemokine receptors
- Section 2. Host defense mechanisms and inflammation
- Immunological function
- Regulation of immune responses
- T-cell mediated inflammation
- Cytotoxic T cell function
- Natural killer cells
- Macrophage effector function
- Host defenses at mucosal surfaces
- Complement
- Neutrophils
- Mast cells and basophils, Eosinphils
- Section 3. Infection and immunity
- Immune responses to extracellular bacteria
- Immune responses to intracellular bacteria
- Immune responses to spirochetes
- Immune responses to viruses
- Immune responses to protozoa
- Immune responses to helminth infection
- Immune responses to fungi
- Infections in the immunocompromised host
- Section 4. Congenital and acquired deficiencies
- Approach to the evaluation of the immunodeficient patient
- Primary antibody deficiencies
- Primary T cell immunodeficiencies
- Complement deficiencies
- Phagocyte deficiencies
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- HIV infection and AIDS in children
- The fetal and neonatal immune system
- Aging and the immune system
- Immune deficiencies in hereditary and metabolic diseases
- Immune abnormalities secondary to infectious diseases
- Secondary immunodeficiency induced by surgery or trauma
- Section 5. Allergic diseases
- The allergic response in host defence
- Anaphylaxis
- Allergic and other reactions to insects
- Allergic rhinitis
- Pathogenesis of asthma
- Management of the asthmatic patient
- Allergic skin diseases and contact dermatitis
- Allergic gastrointestinal diseases
- Allergic disorders of the eye
- Drug allergies and hypersensitivity
- Mastocytosis
- Eosinophilia
- Occupational asthma and related disorders
- Volume 2
- Section 6. Systemic immune diseases
- Mechanisms of autoimmunity and immunopathology
- Serum sickness and pathophysiology of immune complexes
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
- Sjogren syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis
- Inflammatory muscle diseases
- Spondyloarthropathies
- Small and medium vessel primary vasculitides
- Large vessel vasculitides
- Rheumatic fever
- Lyme disease
- Amyloidosis
- Section 7. Organ-specific inflammatory diseases
- Immune-mediated anemia
- Immune-mediated neutropenia
- Immune-mediated platelet coagulation disorders
- Bulous skin disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Multiple sclerosis and related diseases
- Autoimmune peripheral neuropathies
- Immunologic renal diseases
- Myocardial inflammation
- Autoimmune thyroid disease
- Immunology of diabetes and related autoimmune endorcinopathies
- Reproductive immunology
- Immunologic lung diseases
- Sarcoidosis
- Immunologic ocular disease
- Immunological diseases of the gastrointestinal tract
- Inflammatory hepatobiliary disease
- Section 8. Solid organ transplantation
- Concepts and challenges in solid organ transplantation
- Renal transplantation
- Heart and lung transplantation
- Liver transplantation
- Section 9. Immunology of neoplasia
- Anlympoproliferative disorders
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- Lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease
- Virus-associated B cell tumours
- Virally induced T cell malignancies and associated diseases
- Monoclonal gammopathies
- Immune responses and immunotherapy of cancer
- Section 10. Prevention and therapy of immunologic diseases
- Bone marrow reconstitution in primary immunodeficiency
- Bone marrow transpla
