Immunology

During the past fifty years, thousands of natural products have been isolated from plants, fungi, and bacteria. Apart from intense searches by pharmaceutical companies for medicinals and the concentrated effort mounted by the National Cancer Institute,...

The Antibody Enigma is a somewhat personal view of the antibody diversity question from two investigators who have spent the past 18 years trying to penetrate the enigma. It is not and was not meant to be an all-embracing comprehensively referenced...

Although the field of contemporary immunobiology continues to diversify and encompass an increasing array of biomedical disciplines and topics, there are frequently several themes that will receive special emphasis and prominence at any given time. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632413956Author Nessa OkaFormat HardbackPage Count 269Imprint Hayle MedicalPublisher Hayle MedicalWeight(grams) 912gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789238037Author Vijay KumarFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

This book integrates topics in basic research and clinical medicine as well as molecular and cell biology.It presents innovative advances in the field of immunodeficiency syndromes and viral/bacterial respiratory infections, including a novel hyperbaric...

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases. The Americas is the only region with bat rabies virus, including vampire bat rabies. The region is rich in cultural references and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839622045Author Michal TomcikFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

The Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society, which is concerned with advancement of knowledge concerning the many diverse functions of RE cells, organizes national and international meetings and publishes a scientific journal. The VIII International Congress of...

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This book grew out ofmy interest in what is often called "the immunological paradox ofpregnancy." How is it possible that the fetus-halfofwhosegenetic apparatuscomesfrom thefather and is foreign to the mother-can survive to term? This is a question that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632421005Author Jim WangFormat HardbackImprint Foster AcademicsPublisher Foster AcademicsWeight(grams) 553g

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents. So far, anti-HIV therapies have been shown to be disappointing because of rapid development of drug-resistant...

Superantigen Protocols assembles experimental protocols that have proved useful for the study of superantigens. These techniques will allow researchers from various areas of cell biology, microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, and molecular biology to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071621172Author Anton W LangerakFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint HumanaPublisher HumanaWeight(grams) 1066g

The study of tumor markers is not only one of the most important but also one that offers one of the richest perspectives in biology and clinical oncology. The aim of scientists in this field is to adduce evidence of a property that is typical of and...

Allergy and Allergic Diseases has been organized to provide an up-to-date, clinically relevant compilation of one of the most exciting areas of investigation in medicine today-allergic disease, especially as it pertains to the skin, airways, and bowel...

Soon after Kohler and Milstein described the use of somatic cell hybridization for the production of murine monoclonal antibodies of desired specificity, this relatively simple technique became widely applied. Indeed, production of murine monoclonal...

Lyme Borreliosis is a worldwide infectious disease causing a multisystem illness with considerable morbidity, particularly in North America and Europe. The causative agent is the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi, which is usually transmitted by the...

Research related to the pineal gland has advanced rapidly in the last three decades since the discovery of its most important hormone, melatonin. This indoleamine has been shown to have a large variety of effects in the organism; the bulk of these...

No one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration can doubt that most of the great positive evils of the world are in themselves removable, and will, if human affairs continue to improve, be in the end reduced to narrow limits. J. S. Mill,...

This volume provides a comprehensive compilation of protocols in T cell repertoire analysis, from the leading experts in the field, representing both well-established methods and cutting-edge advances. Chapters broadly cover the emerging new T cell...

The aim of this volume is to provide a comprehensive description of methods and protocols useful for the further study of T-helper cells. Chapters guide readers through T-helper cell recovery, molecular study, signal transduction pathways, T-cell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854660803Author Rupesh K. SrivastavaFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint IntechOpenPublisher IntechOpen

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879698966Author Lawrence E SamelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...

Blends biology, clinical science, genetics, and molecular biology of the immune system to provide a complete account of our knowledge of immunologyNew features include full-color artwork and design, over 50 new figures, and text that has been completely...

A summary of the proceedings of the Third Jenner International Glycoimmunology Meeting, held at Il Ciocco, Tuscany in October 1994, under the auspices of EUROCARB, the European Community Concerted Action for Arthritis and Carbohydrate Research. In 31...

Cell Cycle Control and Dysregulation Protocols focuses on emerging methodologies for studying the cell cycle, kinases, and kinase inhibitors. It addresses the issue of gene expression in vivo and in vitro, the analysis of cyclin-dependent kinase...

Interleukins are a family of proteins that regulate the maturation, diff- entiation, or activation of cells involved in immunity and inflammation, and belong to a broader family termed cytokines. Collectively these proteins are the key orchestrators of...

Antigen processing and presentation, as a field, explores a broad range of protein interactions and functions, both intracellular (in the cytoplasm and in the endoplasmic reticulum) and at the cell surface (between T cells and MHC molecules). To...

This work has broad applications in clinical medicine, ranging from prevention and treatment of organ and bone marrow transplant rejection, management of various autoimmune disorders (for example, rheumatoid arthritis), skin disease and asthma. Whereas...

th This volume contains selected lectures presented at the 12 International Conference on Advances in Prostaglandin, Leukotriene and Other Bioactive Lipid Research: Basic Science and Clinical Applications which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on August...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792388623Author Hugh YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 607Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 1866g

Most complex biological systems, such as enzyme pathways, are effec- tively controlled near the beginning of the process. There is increasing evidence that the same is true for the immune system, with the initial interactions between antigen,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306457777Author John S. AxfordFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Kluwer Academic / Plenum PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

In the seventeenth century, smallpox reigned as the world's worst killer. Luck, more than anything else, decided who would live and who would die. That is, until Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, moved to Constantinople and noticed the...

Soon after the first description of monoclonal antibodies in 1976, there was enormous interest in the clinical application of antibodies, especially in the context of cancer. Antibodies appeared to offer the "magic bullet" that would allow the specific...

The complement system plays a major role in the host's defence against infections and in immune complex diseases. Although it is known to consist of a number of serum and membrane proteins that interact through a cascade, there is still a poor...