Comprehensive yet concise and easy to read, this updated edition of Immunology for Medical Students effectively explains complex immunology topics and their relevance in clinical practice. Boasting just the right amount of detail for today's busy medical student, it delivers state-of-the-art coverage of the latest scientific and clinical knowledge in the field. Detailed and explanatory illustrations, combined with clinically relevant examples and cases, offer a unique understanding of the human immune system and its role in protecting us from disease.Key Features

Designed with a clear focus on the needs of medical students.
Includes overview illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, as well as illustrations with dialogue boxes.
Immunology icons are repeated throughout the text, accompanied by a helpful Icon Key.
Detailed clinical cases demonstrate real-world applications.
Technical boxes point out important scientific advances.
End-of-chapter checklists of learning points facilitate review.

Section 1: Introduction
Introduction to the Immune System
Basic Concepts and Components of the Immune System
Section 2: Antigen-Recognition Molecules

3. Introduction to Antigen Recognition

4. Antigens and Antibody Structure

5. Antibody-Antigen Interaction

6. Antibody Diversity

7. The T-cell Receptor

8. Major Histocompatibility Complex

9. Review of Antigen Recognition


Section 3: Physiology

10. Antigen Processing and Presentation

11. Lymphocyte Activation

12. Hematopoiesis

13. The Organs and Tissues of the Immune System

14. B-Cell Development

15. T-Cell Development

16. Cell-Cell Interaction in Generating Effector Lymphocytes

17. Effector T-cells (chapter formerly titled Immunological memory)

18. Regulation in the Immune System (new chapter)

19. Review of immune physiology



Section 4: Innate Immunity

20. Constitutive Defenses Including Complement

21. Phagocytes

22. Killing in the Immune System

23. Inflammation

24. Cytokines in the Immune System


Section 5: Immune system in health and disease

25. Infections and Vaccines

26. Hypersensitivity Reactions

27. Immediate Hypersensitivity (Type I): Allergy

28. How Autoimmune Disease Develops

29. Antibody-Mediated Hypersensitivity (Type II)

30. Immune Complex Disease (Type III Hypersensitivity)

31. Delayed Hypersensitivity (Type IV)

32. Primary Immunodeficiency

33. Secondary Immunodeficiency

34. Transplantation

35. Tumor Immunology

36. Monoclonal Antibodies and Recombinant Cytokines

37. Review of immunity in health and disease


Glossary

Index