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How the immune system works /

Sompayrac, Lauren.

How the immune system works / Lauren Sompayrac. - 3rd ed. - Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008. - vii, 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes index.

An overview -- The innate immune system -- B cells and antibodies -- The magic of antigen presentation -- T cells and cytokines -- Lymphoid organs and lymphocyte trafficking -- Turning off the immune system -- Tolerance induction and MHC restriction -- Immunological memory and vaccines -- Immunopathology : the immune system gone wrong -- Cancer and the immune system -- A critique of the immune system.

9781405162210 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2007036835


Immune system.
Immunity.
Immune System--physiology.
Immune System--anatomy & histology.
Immune System--physiopathology.
Immunity--physiology.

QR181 / .S65 2008

616.07/9

QW 504 / S697h 2008

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