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Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology Is A Brand-New Addition To The Internationally Best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews series. This Volume Offers A Highly Visual Presentation Of Essential Immunology Material, With All The Popular Features Of The series: Over 300 Full-Color Annotated Illustrations, An Outline Format, Chapter summaries, Review Questions, And Case studies That Link Basic science To Real-Life Clinical situations. Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Immunology Can Be Used As A Review Text For A short Immunology Course, Or Paired With Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology For A Combined Microbiology/Immunology Course.

A Companion Website Features The Fully searchable Online Text, 300 Additional Usmle-style Questions, An Image Bank, And A Library Of Individual Image Components From Which Instructors Can Assemble Their Own Figures In Power point.

About The Author
Thao Doan Md, Medical Director Of Clinical Pharmacology, Abbott Laboratories, Waukegan, Il

Susan Viselli Phd, Associate Professor, Department Of Biochemistry, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Il

Carl Waltenbaugh Phd, Professor, Department Of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg school Of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Il

Table of Contents
Unit I: Sense Of Being: The Concept Of self And self/Non-self Recognition

Chapter 1: The Need For self Recognition
Chapter 2: Antigens And Receptors

Unit II: The Innate Immune system

Chapter 3: Barriers To Infection
Chapter 4: Cells Of The Innate Immune system
Chapter 5: Innate Immune Function

Unit III: The Adaptive Immune system

Chapter 6: Molecules Of Adaptive Immunity
Chapter 7: Cells And Organs
Chapter 8: Generation Of Immune Diversity: Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors
Chapter 9: Lymphocyte Development: B Cells And T Cells
Chapter 10: Lymphocyte Activation
Chapter 11: Lymphocyte Function
Chapter 12: Regulation Of Adaptive Responses

Unit IV: Clinical Aspects Of Immunity

Chapter 13: The Well Patient, Or How Innate And Adaptive Immune Responses Maintain Health
Chapter 14: Hypersensitivity states
Chapter 15: Immunodeficiency
Chapter 16: Autoimmunity
Chapter 17: Transplantation
Chapter 18: Immune Pharmacotherapy
Chapter 19: Tumor Immunity
Chapter 20: Measurement Of Immune Function