AIDS (Chapter 8); cancer (Chapter 11); bioterrorism (Chapter 14) are all timely/newsworthy topics Summarises the facts into an easily readable and interesting explanation of 'big picture' ideas for an audience without a scientific or technical background. A short glossary is provided to help general readers with scientific terms The book should interest anyone who has had any of the diseases or disorders described in Part II, and whose families want to understand in lay terms what their maladies involve. There are very few resources in accessible books about immunology Part I's four chapters describe the immune system and its components, how they fit together and work to protect us against microbial diseases. It covers antibodies, how they are made and how they work;T cells; strategies the body uses to distinguish what is self from what is not, and how the body discriminates precisely among different forms of non-self;the nature of immunological memory;and the interaction of the evolutionary older innate immune system with more recent adaptive immune response Part II's ten chapters systematically explore the role of the immune system in health and disease. It explores a wide range of topics including details of human resistance to microbial invasion: the latest approaches to vaccination, including DNA vaccines; the role of the immune system in cancer; and how the immune system will react should we ever be subjected to a bioterrorist attack The book treats the immune system's role in diseases and disorders like AIDS, cancer, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, organ transplantation, allergies and asthma, and various immunopathologies and infections caused by bacteria, viruses and fungi The book discusses the latest approaches to vaccination, including DNA vaccines, how they work, and why they don't at times INDICE: Part I: How The Immune System Works Chapter 1. What Is An Immune System? Chapter 2. Antibodies Chapter 3. How Do Antibodies Work? Chapter 4.T Cells: The Second Arm of Adaptive Immunity Part II: The Immune System in Health and Disease Chapter 5. The Immune Response to Infectious Disease: All Out War! Chapter 6. When the Immune System is the Problem, and Not the Solution Chapter 7. Vaccines: How They Work, Why Sometimes They Don't, And What We Can Do About It Chapter 8. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: AIDS Chapter 9.When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Primary Immune Deficiencies Chapter10. When the Immune System is the Problem, and Not the Solution Section II: Hypersensitivity and Allergy Chapter 11. The Immune System and Cancer Chapter 12. Autoimmunity Chapter 13. Organ Transplantation Chapter 14. First Defense: TheImmune System and Bioterrorism
- ISBN: 978-0-19-533555-2
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés