In defense of self how the immune system really works / [electronic resource] :
William R. Clark.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- vi. 265 p. : ill.
Includes index.
What is an immune system? -- Antibodies -- How do antibodies work? -- T cells: the second arm of adaptive immunity -- The immune response to infectious disease: all out war! -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: microbial immunopatholgoy -- Vaccines: how they work, why sometimes they don't, and what we can do about it --When the walls come tumbling down: HIV/AIDS -- When the walls come tumbling down: primary immune deficiencies -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: hypersensitivity and allergy -- The immune system and cancer -- Autoimmunity -- Organ transplantation -- First defense: the immune system and bioterrorism.
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