Physiology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Physiology - Immune System, Biology - Bacteriology, Microbiology

The Innate Immune System

Name: The Innate Immune System
Author: Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
ISBN: 9781555812911

by Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Siamon Gordon (Editor), Ruslan Medzhitov

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Overview

Immunologists of course, but also scientists in other medical and biological disciplines review the current understanding of innate immunity—contrasted with acquired immunity—as informed by recent notions and techniques from cellular and molecular biology. In sections on mammalian cells, humoral factors, receptors, and effector responses, they discuss such topics as the biology of macrophages, innate natural killer cell responses to infection, urinary tract infection as a model for innate mucosal immunity, collectins and the acute-phase response, coagulation, toll-like receptors and the control of adaptive immunity, antigen-presenting cell receptors, antimicrobial proteins, chemokines, and lipids. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR