How the immune system recognizes self and nonself : immunoreceptors and their signaling /

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Imprint:	Tokyo ; New York : Springer, c2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 251 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Subject:	Immune recognition. Immune response. Immune system. Cellular immunity. Receptors, Immunologic -- physiology. Immunity, Cellular -- physiology. Lymphocytes -- physiology. Cellular immunity. Immune recognition. Immune response. Immune system.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8885547

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Other authors / contributors:	Kitamura, Daisuke.
ISBN:	9784431738848 4431738843 9784431738831 (paper) 4431738835 (paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
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,
Other form:	Print version: How the immune system recognizes self and nonself. Tokyo ; New York : Springer, c2008 9784431738831 4431738835

Table of Contents:

Recognition of pathogens: toll-like receptors / Satoshi Uematsu, Shizuo Akira
Strategies of natural killer (NK) cell recognition and their roles in tumor immunosurveillance / C. Andrew Stewart, Eric Vivier
Recent progress on paired immunoglobulin-like receptors / Hiromi Kubagawa ... [et al.]
Self-nonself recognition through B-cell antigen receptor / Daisuke Kitamura
How do T cells discriminate self from nonself? / Catherine Mazza, Bernard Malissen
Fc receptors / Falk Nimmerjahn, Jeffrey V. Ravetch
Self and nonself recognition by coreceptors on B lymphocytes: regulation of B lymphocytes by CD19, CD21, CD22, and CD72 / Kozo Watanabe, Takeshi Tsubata
Co-receptors in the positive and negative regulation of T-cell immunity / Helga Schneider, Christopher E. Rudd.

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