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Veterinary immunology /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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St. Louis, Missouri :
Elsevier,
[2018].
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| Edición: | Tenth edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Surviving in a microbial world
- Innate immunity: how to detect invaders
- Humoral innate immunity: inflammatory mediators
- Humoral innate immunity: the complement system
- Cellular innate immunity: neutrophils and phagocytosis
- Cellular innate immunity: macrophages and recovery from inflammation
- Sickness: the body's innate responses
- How immune cells communicate: cytokines and their receptors
- Antigens: triggers of adaptive immunity
- Dendritic cells and antigen processing
- The major histocompatibility complex
- Organs of the immune system
- Lymphocytes
- Helper t cells and their response to antigens
- B cells and their response to antigens
- Antibodies: soluble antigen receptors
- How antigen-binding receptors are made
- T cells and the destruction of cell-associated invaders
- Innate lymphoid cells
- Regulation of adaptive immunity
- The microbiota and the immune system
- Immunity at body surfaces
- Immunity in the fetus and newborn
- Vaccines and their production
- The use of vaccines
- Immunity to bacteria and fungi
- Immunity to viruses
- Immunity to parasites
- Mast cell and eosinophil mediated hypersensitivity
- Allergic syndromes
- Red cell antigens and antibody-mediated hypersensitivity
- Immune-complexes and neutrophil-mediated hypersensitivity
- T cell-mediated hypersensitivity
- Organ graft rejection and pregnancy
- Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
- Autoimmunity: general principles
- Organ-specific autoimmune diseases
- Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
- Primary immunodeficiencies
- Secondary immunological defects
- Drugs and other agents that affect the immune system
- Immunodiagnostic techniques
- Evolution of the immune system