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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Surviving in a Microbial World 2. Innate Immunity: How to Detect Invaders 3. Humoral Innate Immunity: Inflammatory Mediators 4. Humoral Innate Immunity: The Complement System 5. Cellular Innate Immunity: Neutrophils and Phagocytosis 6. Cellular Innate Immunity: Macrophages and Recovery from Inflammation 7. Sickness: The Body's Innate Responses 8. How Immune Cells Communicate: Cytokines and Their Receptors 9. Antigens: Triggers of Adaptive Immunity 10. Dendritic Cells and Antigen Processing 11. The Major Histocompatibility Complex 12. Organs of the Immune System 13. Lymphocytes 14. Helper T Cells and Their Response to Antigens 15. B Cells and Their Response to Antigens 16. Antibodies: Soluble Antigen Receptors 17. How Antigen-Binding Receptors Are Made 18. T Cells and the Destruction of Cell-Associated Invaders 19. Innate Lymphoid Cells 20. Regulation of Adaptive Immunity 21. The Microbiota and the Immune System 22. Immunity at Body Surfaces 23. Immunity in the Fetus and Newborn 24. Vaccines and Their Production 25. The Use of Vaccines 26. Immunity to Bacteria and Fungi 27. Immunity to viruses 28. Immunity to Parasites 29. Mast Cell and Eosinophil Mediated Hypersensitivity 30. Allergic Syndromes 31. Red Cell Antigens and Antibody-mediated Hypersensitivity 32. Immune-complexes and Neutrophil-mediated Hypersensitivity 33. T Cell-mediated Hypersensitivity 34. Organ Graft Rejection and Pregnancy 35. Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy 36. Autoimmunity: General Principles 37. Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases 38. Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases 39. Primary Immunodeficiencies 40. Secondary Immunological Defects 41. Drugs and Other Agents that Affect the Immune System 42. Immunodiagnostic Techniques 43. Evolution of the Immune System GLOSSARY INDEX
