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- Book Title
- In Defense of Self: How the Immune System Really Works
- ISBN
- 9780195335552
- Subject Area
- Medical
- Publication Name
- In Defense of Self : How the Immune System Really Works
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.1 in
- Subject
- Immunology, General
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 11.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195335554
ISBN-13
9780195335552
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60300428
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
In Defense of Self : How the Immune System Really Works
Language
English
Subject
Immunology, General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-021047
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
616.07/9
Table Of Content
Part I: How The Immune System WorksChapter 1. What Is An Immune System?Chapter 2. AntibodiesChapter 3. How Do Antibodies Work?Chapter 4. T Cells: The Second Arm of Adaptive ImmunityPart II The Immune System in Health and DiseaseChapter 5. The Immune Response to Infectious Disease: All Out War!Chapter 6. When the Immune System is the Problem, and Not The SolutionChapter 7. Vaccines: How They Work, Why Sometimes They Don't, And What We Can Do About ItChapter 8. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: AIDSChapter 9. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Primary Immune DeficienciesChapter10. When the Immune System is the Problem, and Not The SolutionSection II: Hypersensitivity and AllergyChapter 11. The Immune System and CancerChapter 12. AutoimmunityChapter 13. Organ TransplantationChapter 14. First Defense: The Immune System and Bioterrorism
Synopsis
We live in a sea of seething microbial predators, an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of setting up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thing keeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Self offers a refreshingly accessible tour of the immune system, putting in layman's terms essential information that has been for too long the exclusive province of trained specialists. Clark explains how the immune system works by using powerful genetic, chemical, and cellular weapons to protect us from the vast majority of disease-causing microbes-bacteria, viruses, molds, and parasites. Only those microbes our bodies need to help us digest food and process vitamins are admitted. But this same system can endanger us by rejecting potentially life-saving organ transplants, or by overreacting and turning too much force against foreign invaders, causing serious--occasionally lethal--collateral damage to our tissues and resulting in autoimmune disease. In Defense of Self covers everything from how antibodies work and the strategies the body uses to distinguish self from not self to the nature of immunological memory, the latest approaches to vaccination, and how the immune system will react should we ever be subjected to a bioterrorist attack. Clark also offers important insights on the vital role that the immune system plays in cancer, AIDS, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies and asthma, and other diseases. Of special interest to all those suffering from diseases related to the immune system, as well as their families, In Defense of Self lucidly explains a system none of us could live without., We live in a sea of seething microbial predators, an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of setting set up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thing keeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Self offers a refreshingly accessible tour of the immune system, putting in layman's terms essential information that has been for too long the exclusive province of trained specialists. Clark explains how the immune system works by using powerful genetic, chemical, and cellular weapons to protect us from the vast majority of disease-causing microbes-bacteria, viruses, molds, and parasites. Only those microbes our bodies need to help us digest food and process vitamins are admitted. But this same system can endanger us by rejecting potentially life-saving organ transplants, or by overreacting and turning too much force against foreign invaders, causing serious--occasionally lethal--collateral damage to our tissues and resulting in autoimmune disease. In Defense of Self covers everything from how antibodies work and the strategies the body uses to distinguish self from not self to the nature of immunological memory, the latest approaches to vaccination, and how the immune system will react should we ever be subjected to a bioterrorist attack. Clark also offers important insights on the vital role that the immune system plays in cancer, AIDS, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies and asthma, and other diseases. Of special interest to all those suffering from diseases related to the immune system, as well as their families, In Defense of Self lucidly explains a system none of us could live without., We live in a sea of seething microbial predators, an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of setting up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thing keeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Self offers a refreshingly accessible tour of the immune system, putting in layman's terms essential information that has been for too long the exclusive province of trainedspecialists. Clark explains how the immune system works by using powerful genetic, chemical, and cellular weapons to protect us from the vast majority of disease-causing microbes-bacteria, viruses, molds, andparasites. Only those microbes our bodies need to help us digest food and process vitamins are admitted. But this same system can endanger us by rejecting potentially life-saving organ transplants, or by overreacting and turning too much force against foreign invaders, causing serious--occasionally lethal--collateral damage to our tissues and resulting in autoimmune disease. In Defense of Self covers everything from how antibodies work and the strategies the body uses to distinguishself from not self to the nature of immunological memory, the latest approaches to vaccination, and how the immune system will react should we ever be subjected to a bioterrorist attack. Clark also offersimportant insights on the vital role that the immune system plays in cancer, AIDS, autoimmunity, rheumatoid arthritis, allergies and asthma, and other diseases. Of special interest to all those suffering from diseases related to the immune system, as well as their families, In Defense of Self lucidly explains a system none of us could live without., In In Defense of Self, William Clark invites you on a whirlwind tour of your immune system. Along the way, he introduces some of most important medical advances and challenges of the past hundred years, from the development of vaccines and the treatment of allergies, autoimmunity and cancer, to prolonging organ transplants and combating AIDS. Clark not only explains how a vital part of our bodies works to "serve and protect," he also provides backgroundfor the exciting research themes of today that will produce the medical breakthroughs of tomorrow.
LC Classification Number
QR181.7.C5532 2007
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