Constantin A. Bona - Böcker

This volume presents the critical information attendant to developing vaccines using the genetic basis of immunology. The authors explore which techniques and experimental paths can be pursued so that efficacious results in human trials can be reasonably expected for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, viral, and autoimmune diseases, as well as cancers. A chapter on the genetic vaccination of neonates with virus or plasmid DNA is also included.

The goal of this book is to present findings which are supportive of the concept that the words of the idiotype dictionary and likewise self-recognition are essential for communication between lymphocyte clones while some unfaithful ( infidel ) copies of the words contained in the idiotype dictionary perhaps play a role in the functional regulation of nonlymphoid cells.

The goal of this book is to present findings which are supportive of the concept that the words of the idiotype dictionary and likewise self-recognition are essential for communication between lymphocyte clones while some unfaithful ( infidel ) copies of the words contained in the idiotype dictionary perhaps play a role in the functional regulation of nonlymphoid cells.

This book presents the critical information attendant to developing vaccines using the genetic basis of immunology. The authors explore which techniques and experimental paths can be pursued so that efficacious results in human trials can be reasonably expected for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, viral, and autoimmune diseases, as well as cancers. A chapter on the genetic vaccination of neonates with virus or plasmid DNA is also included.

Building on the strengths of the first edition, the newly titled and expanded second edition remains a concise introduction to the fundamentals of immunology, with an expert synthesis of basic and clinical information., Augmented by color illustrations, and with increased emphasis on the molecular and genetic underpinnings of cellular phenomena, Textbook of Immunology covers the physiology of the immune system, disease entities related to immune system dysfunction, and the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms of dysfunction. In response to advancing knowledge that influences the approach to presenting basic immunology, new chapters have been added on cytokines; host defense (non-specific immunity and specific immune responses); the aging immune system; and the pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of AIDS., This book keeps pace with the explosion of information and data in immunology, and adeptly refines, organizes, and presents this body of knowledge to serve as a succinct introduction to modern immunologic concepts for medical students, and as an update and refresher in the basics for researchers and clinicians.