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Overview
Fundamental Immunology
Seventh Edition
This standard-setting textbook has defined the field of immunology since 1984, and is now in its Seventh Edition continuing to deliver the detailed, authoritative, and timely coverage readers expect. This comprehensive, up-to-date text is ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, basic and clinical immunologists, microbiologists and infectious disease physicians, and any physician treating diseases in which immunologic mechanisms play a role.
Now full-color throughout the book’s fully revised and updated content reflects the latest advances in the field. Current insights enhance readers’ understanding of immune system function. The text’s unique approach bridges the gap between basic immunology and the disease process. Extensive coverage of molecular biology explains the molecular dynamics underlying immune disorders and their treatment. Abundant illustrations and tables deliver essential information at a glance. Plus a convenient companion website features the fully searchable text with all references linked to PubMed.
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• Fully revised and updated content reflects the latest advances in the field.
• Current insights enhance readers’ understanding of immune system function
• Unique approach bridges the gap between basic immunology and the disease process.
• Extensive coverage of molecular biology explains the molecular dynamics underlying immune disorders and their treatment.
• Abundant illustrations and tables deliver essential information at a glance.
PLUS…
A convenient companion website features the fully searchable text with all references linked to PubMed.
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The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.
The classic immunology resource returns with up-to-the-minute coverage and a revised art program! Readers will find new chapters on ¼ lymphocyte development and biology, ¼ lymphocyte activation, autoimmunity, apoptosis, regulatory cytokines, control of T cell phenotype, affinity maturation, cytotoxic T cells, immunotherapy, mucosal immunity, and the immunology of aging. The accompanying CD-ROM offers full text, references, tables, and illustrations / animated line drawings / color-enhanced illustrations / an on-line link to the Internet / and a dynamic link from the end of chapter references to five major journals!
Editorials
John A. Robinson
The third edition of this textbook is a global presentation of the fundamentals of modern immunology. The author has assembled a galaxy of immunology superstars to write chapters in the areas of their expertise. Although the number of contributors is large, the variance in quality of presentation of their work is not as mixed or uneven as in many other multiauthored texts. The purpose is to provide a sophisticated presentation of most concepts of modern immunology. The intended audience is any and all scientists, including clinicians, interested in immunology. The book has several interesting twists. The overview of immunology by Dr. Paul precedes a very informative and entertaining history of the subject. There is a tendency to ""simplify"" immunology texts with unintelligible cartoons and arrow pathways but this has been avoided. The illustrations are appropriate and have highly readable legends. (Garbled complex legends are also a persistent problem in many immunology texts.) In most chapters, the reader is directed to pertinent reviews on various topics from the text itself. One of the most daunting tasks is editing a multiauthored text in this rapidly changing field. Moreover, the ability to present an immunology text as current, at the time of publication, is almost impossible. Dr. Paul has done all of the above and deserves kudos. This is an excellent text. I thoroughly enjoyed chapter 30. It was topical, prescient, and readable. A refreshing skeptical attitude concerning the utility of animal models and in vitro assays for understanding human diseases permeates the entire text. Healthy skepticism is urgently needed in the field of immunology. Clinicians who cannot keep up withcurrent concepts will find this book a gold mine as they try to make sense of the many immunological syndromes.From The Critics
Reviewer: John A. Robinson, MD (Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine)Description: The third edition of this textbook is a global presentation of the fundamentals of modern immunology. The author has assembled a galaxy of immunology superstars to write chapters in the areas of their expertise. Although the number of contributors is large, the variance in quality of presentation of their work is not as mixed or uneven as in many other multiauthored texts.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a sophisticated presentation of most concepts of modern immunology.
Audience: The intended audience is any and all scientists, including clinicians, interested in immunology.
Features: The book has several interesting twists. The overview of immunology by Dr. Paul precedes a very informative and entertaining history of the subject. There is a tendency to "simplify" immunology texts with unintelligible cartoons and arrow pathways but this has been avoided. The illustrations are appropriate and have highly readable legends. (Garbled complex legends are also a persistent problem in many immunology texts.) In most chapters, the reader is directed to pertinent reviews on various topics from the text itself.
Assessment: One of the most daunting tasks is editing a multiauthored text in this rapidly changing field. Moreover, the ability to present an immunology text as current, at the time of publication, is almost impossible. Dr. Paul has done all of the above and deserves kudos. This is an excellent text. I thoroughly enjoyed chapter 30. It was topical, prescient, and readable. A refreshing skeptical attitude concerning the utility of animal models and in vitro assays for understanding human diseases permeates the entire text. Healthy skepticism is urgently needed in the field of immunology. Clinicians who cannot keep up with current concepts will find this book a gold mine as they try to make sense of the many immunological syndromes.
Booknews
An authoritative presentation of the basic elements of the immune system and of the means through which the mechanisms of immunity act in a wide range of clinical conditions, including protection against infectious agents, rejection of tumors, transplantation of tissues and organs, autoimmune and other immunopathologic conditions, and allergy. Reflecting progress in virtually every aspect of the field, this edition gives explicit chapter status to many new subjects, includes contributions from many new authors, and, with few exceptions, is entirely rewritten. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)4 Stars! from Doody