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- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Resources for Instructors and Students
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- PART I: An introduction to immunobiology and innat e immunity
- Chapter 1 Basic Concepts in Immunology
- Chapter 2 Innate Immunity: The First Lines of Defense
- Chapter 3 The Induced Response of Innate Immunity
- PART II: The recognition of antigen
- Chapter 4 Antigen Recognition by B-cell and T-cell Receptors
- Chapter 5 The Generation of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors
- Chapter 6 Antigen Presentation to T Lymphocytes
- PART III: The development of mat ure lymphocyte receptor repert oires
- Chapter 7 Lymphocyte Receptor Signaling
- Chapter 8 The Development of B and T Lymphocytes
- PART IV: the adaptive immune response
- Chapter 9 T-cell-Mediated Immunity
- Chapter 10 The Humoral Immune Response
- Chapter 11 Integrated Dynamics of Innate and Adaptive Immunity
- Chapter 12 The Mucosal Immune System
- PART V: the immune System in Healt h and Disease
- Chapter 13 Failures of Host Defense Mechanisms
- Chapter 14 Allergy and Allergic Diseases
- Chapter 15 Autoimmunity and Transplantation
- Chapter 16 Manipulation of the Immune Response
- APPENDICES
- I The Immunologist’s Toolbox
- II CD antigens
- III Cytokines and their Receptors
- IV Chemokines and their Receptors
- Biographies
- Glossary
- Index