Peter J. Delves Seamus J. Martin Dennis R. Burton Ivan M. Roitt 2017 Greetings, dear reader! In the exciting world of scientific progress, immunology plays a prominent role and we have aimed to bring this edition to the cutting edge of the latest discoveries.
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Andrew E. Williams Tracy Hussell Clare Lloyd 2012 For thousands of years humans have marvelled at how the body is able to protect itself from infectious pathogens. Even the ancient Chinese and Greeks acknowledged the protective effects of the immune system, noting how one is rendered resistant to catching the same disease a second time.
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J. Langhorne (Ed.) 2005 Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than one million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on sub-Saharan Africa, where over 90% of these deaths are thought to […]
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STEVEN A. FRANK 2002
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Edited by John B. Zabriskie 2009
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Graham Pawelec 2007 Human immunosenescence contributes to morbidity and mortality in later life. The age-associated increasing incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease plateaus at around 80 years of age in industrialised countries, hut death due to infectious disease continues to increase up to 100 years of age and beyond.
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Weihua Gong Editor 2015 With the rapid development of microsurgery and molecular biology, rodent transplant models have become increasingly popular. Transplantation in rodents is the most useful in studying transplant immunobiology, in which more immunological tools can be utilized.
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Edited by Ronald R. Watson Sherma Zibadi Victor R. Preedy 2010 The Strategic Plan of the United States’ National Institute of Health stresses the pursuit of mechanistic studies as an overarching priority. Among the basic mechanisms identified as needing exploration are immune-focused studies. Many dietary components are believed to exert their activities by modulating immune function.
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Paul-Peter Tak Editor 2009 During the past decades important breakthroughs have been made in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). First, the implementation of low-dose methotrexate and other conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs was introduced as an effective treatment.
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Edited by Henry J. Kaminski 2009 The objective of the second edition of Myasthenia Gravis and Related Disorders is identical to the first, to provide the clinician and the scientist a common source for understanding the complex disorder, myasthenia gravis (MG). Although the first edition appeared in 2003, there have been surprising advances in the field that recommend […]
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