Published October, 2012
By J.G. Sissons, L.K. Borysiewicz and J. Cohen
Publisher: Springer
Series: Immunology and Medicine
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Published October, 2012
By J. Whicher and S.W. Evans
Publisher: Springer
Series: Immunology and Medicine
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Our understanding of inflammation has increased rapidly in recent years, due in large part to the impact of molecular biology and gene identification and cloning.

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Published October, 2012
By Jan G.J. Winkel and M. Hogarth
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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The first part of the book contains state-of-the-art overviews on the biological role of FcR. The latest information on FcR heterogeneity, FcR physiology, FcR-ligand recognition, their crucial coordinating role in immunity, interactions with other immunoreceptors, and the role of FcR in immunoglobulin transport and catabolism are discussed.

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Published October, 2012
By Gabriel Panayi and G. S. Panayi
Publisher: Springer
Series: Immunology and Medicine
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Connective tissue diseases demand study because of their frequency, morbidity and mortality. The book presents up-to-date reviews of the immunological basis of connective tissue diseases as it impacts on diagnosis, pathogenetic concepts, disease monitoring and management.

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Published October, 2012
By Gr. Bird
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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In that relatively short period of time, study of the disease has moved from the level of early clinical description to exhaustive and extensive laboratory characterization of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the immune responses directed towards it and reasons for their failure.

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Published September, 2012
By H.C. Thomas, J. Waters and Howard Thomas
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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The role of the immune response in both the pathology of liver disease and in the modulation ofliver injury has been the subject of intense research. Further chapters are devoted to the three major autoimmune liver diseases which are thought to be the result of loss of tolerance to autologous liver tissue.

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Published December, 2011
By V.S. Byers and R. W. Baldwin
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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A central issue in tumour immunology is whether human tumours express antigens which can be termed tumour-specific. Robins in the introductory chapter in which the expression of antigens in human tumours is compared with that in experimentally induced animal tumours.

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Published November, 2011
By T.J. Hamblin
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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Immunotherapy began in 1774 when the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty inoculated his wife and two sons with the pus from the teat of a cow suffering from cow pox, using his wife's knitting needle as a vaccinating implement.

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Published November, 2011
By G.R. Catto and Graeme Catto
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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The various chapters, written by physicians, surgeons, pathologists and immunologists present many of the currently important issues in transplantation and demonstrate that a basic undertaking of immunology is now essential in many areas of clinical practice.

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Published October, 2011
By A.M. McGregor
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Series: Immunology and Medicine
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Nineteen eighty-six is a most appropriate year in which to be writing about developments in the organ-specific, autoimmune endocrine diseases. It celebrates the publication 30 years ago in 1956 of the classic papers of Roitt and Doniach and their co-workers I , and of Rose and Witebsky2 and Adams 3 and Purves .

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