Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology. Articles address the wide range of topics that comprise immunology, including molecular and cellular activation mechanisms, phylogeny and molecular evolution, and clinical modalities. Edited and authored by the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for the future.Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the fieldContributions from leading authorities and industry experts

This is the fifth edition of a comprehensive textbook on the immune system and its mechanisms. With this edition, the tradition established by Max Samter is carried on by his colleagues and former students, along with leading scientists, researchers and physicians from the USA, UK, France, Spain, Austria and Israel. Firm editorial control has ensured that this text is a current resource: the extensive reference lists are up-to-date as of 1993 and the book has been revised and reorganized throughout to reflect the changing face of immunology. (view table of contents)

Therapeutic Immunology discusses evolving and established modalities of treatment in both immunologic and systemic diseases. It will be organized by modality (drugs, biologics, maneuvers) and by point of intervention rather than disease, and explain how and why these interventions work in these particular disorders and at various stages on the pathophysiologic process. The authors are considered to be among the ablest people in modern immunology and their support team is equally as impressive. Using a clinical versus theoretical approach, the chapter will be organized similarly as follows: introduction, history of the agent, structure, molecular and cellular basis of action, diseases in which this approach is useful, dosage and treatment, mechanisms of toxicity, and alternative modalities to attack at the point of intervention when the original agent does not work. The contents structure includes an introduction, followed by a section on drugs that includes antimetabolics and radiomimetics, corticosteroids, and anti-inflammatory drugs. Next is a section on Biologics which includes cytokines, macromolecules, antibody-based therapies, immunotherapy of allergic disease, chimeric proteins, and vaccines and peptide-based therapies. The final section covers maneuvers such as radiation, transplantation, cellular therapy, gene therapy, and extracorporeal therapy. This clinical reference will show how immunology has come of age as a clinical discipline and is now able to provide treatment strategies for many previously incurable diseases (view table of contents)

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