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| Other authors / contributors: | Kitamura, Daisuke.
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| ISBN: | 9784431738848
4431738843
9784431738831 (paper)
4431738835 (paper)
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | The immune system is a highly evolved security system that protects the body from infection by pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. The immune system also recognizes and rejects a transplanted organ from even the same species. Indeed, the immune system potentially recognizes and eliminates everything that invades the body (nonself). However, it does not normally eliminate self cells or tissues except tumor cells developed from self tissue. Occasionally the immune system breaks down and attacks the body components of the self, manifesting as autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis,
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| Other form: | Print version: How the immune system recognizes self and nonself. Tokyo ; New York : Springer, c2008 9784431738831 4431738835
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