Description
**Selected for 2025 Doody's Core Titles® in Immunology**Well-written, readable, and superbly illustrated, Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Eleventh Edition, continues the tradition of excellence established through multiple editions of this bestselling text. Offering an unparalleled introduction to this complex field, it retains a practical, clinical focus while updating and revising all content to ensure clarity and comprehension, bringing readers fully up to date with new and emerging information in this challenging area. It's an ideal resource for medical, graduate, and undergraduate students, as well as a trusted reference for physicians and scientists.- Highlights the implications of immunologic science for the management of human disease, emphasizing clinical relevance throughout.- Employs a highly accessible writing style that makes difficult concepts easier to understand, and provides clear implications of immunologic science to the management of human disease and clinical practice.- Features updates from cover to cover, including new information on COVID-19, genetics and pathogenesis of allergic diseases, newly recognized primary immune regulatory disorders, interactions between the immune system and brain and their role in CNS disorders, and CRISPR/Cas9 based gene editing.- Provides a highly visual, full-color description of the key immunologic and molecular processes with a fully updated, comprehensive, and consistent art program, including many new and extensively revised illustrations.- Helps readers grasp the details of experimental observations that form the basis for the science of immunology at the molecular, cellular, and whole-organism levels and draw the appropriate conclusions.- Includes summary boxes that assist with rapid review and mastery of key material.
Table of Contents
1. Overview of the Immune System2. Cells and Tissues of the Immune System3. Leukocyte Circulation and Migration Into Tissues4. Innate Immunity5. Antibodies and Antigens6. Antigen Presentation to T Lymphocytes and the Role of Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules7. Immune Receptors and Signal Transduction8. Lymphocyte Development and Antigen Receptor Gene Rearrangement9. Activation and Regulation of T Lymphocytes10. Differentiation and Functions of CD4 + Effector T Cells11. Differentiation and Functions of CD8 + Effector T Cells12. B-Cell Activation and Antibody Production13. Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity14. Specialized Immunity at Epithelial Barriers and in Immune-Privileged Tissues15. Immunologic Tolerance and Autoimmunity16. Immunity to Microbes17. Transplantation Immunology18. Tumor Immunology19. Hypersensitivity Disorders20. Allergy21. Congenital and Acquired Immunodeficiencies
