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Concise Medical Immunology is intended for medical and allied health students taking a short foundation course in immunology. The text provides a concise, clear, clinically oriented, user-friendly introduction to fundamental immunologic principles and their applications in medical practice. Clinical Application boxes and patient vignettes help students connect basic immunology with real-life clinical practice. Each chapter ends with a bulleted summary and review questions. Appendices include a lexicon of immunologic abbreviations and acronyms and a comprehensive glossary of immunologic terms with detailed definitions. 100 specially designed two-color illustrations illuminate key concepts. These images will be available free to adopters on connection.LWW.com/go/Doan.
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Writing for medical and health students taking short foundation courses in immunology, the authors cover the basics of the role of the immune system and how that system relates to human health and disease. By highlighting clinical applications and case studies in the text, readers can use this as a quick reference guide as well as a text, and the authors provide a very helpful glossary with detailed definitions. They introduce antigens and the concept of "self" vs. "nonself" in immunology, then proceed to describing cells, cell-surface molecules, and organs. They examine adaptive, innate, and protective immune responses, with a section on molecules of the adaptive immune system, hypersensitivity, autoimmunity and tolerance, and the issues encountered in transplantation and other situations requiring immunotherapy or immunosupression. The authors provide exercises throughout, and provide answers, and also give appendices on tools and assays of immune function and chemokines, cytokines, and their receptors. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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