Product Description

Extensively updated, with new contributors, brilliant new illustrations and a wealth of supporting material online, this 7th edition offers you a carefully structured approach to learning the building blocks of the immune system as well as initiation and actions of the immune response. The website which accompanies this text gives access to all the images in the book, up to 20 detailed animation sequences (which link to further supporting text, illustrations, molecular models and video clips), 8 lectures which explain how the immune system responds to different infections or to tissue grafts, and a test bank of 300 USMLE-style questions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #534976 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-25
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 564 pages

Ingram
A thorough revision of a world renowned reference, the fourth edition of this important work provides precise discussions, graphic artwork, and color photos which help simplify the complex subject of immunology. The book includes timely discussions of the lymphoid system, regulation of the immune response, immunological tolerance, tumor immunology, and immunodeficiency.

Book Info
Univ. College London Medical School, U.K. Introductory text for medical students. The fifth edition includes information on cytokines, natural killer cells, intracellular signalling in Band and T-cells THl/TH2 responses. Color illustrations. Softcover.

About the Author
Ivan Roitt, MA, DSc, (Oxon) Hon FRCP, (Lond) FRCPath, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Immunology, Director of Institute of Biomedical Science, University College London Medical School, London, UK; Jonathan Brostoff, MA, DM (Oxon), DSc, FRCP (Lond), FRCPath, Professor of Allergy and Environmental Health, Centre for Allergy Research, Department of Immunology, University College London Medical School, London, UK; and David Male, MA,PhD, Senior Lecturer in Neuroimmunology, Department of Immunology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK