Immunology

Immunotherapy is a medical term defined as treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response . Immunotherapies are de...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory auto-immune disease characterised by progressive joint destruction resulting from chronic synov...

Macrophages are widely distributed innate immune cells, which play a pivotal role not only in the primary response to pathogens but also in adaptiv...

Vaccines play an essential role in keeping humans and animals healthy. The vaccine has been one of the most important interventions designed to bot...

The opening chapter of Antiphospholipid Antibodies (APLA): Types and Functions in Health and Disease is focused on the modern immunoassays for the ...

Progressive systemic sclerosis/scleroderma is a complex multi-organ autoimmune connective disease that has protean manifestations; although mostly ...

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) occur when the immune system is mistakenly activated and attacks self antigens present in our body, leading to tissue des...

In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her struggle with a disabling autoimmune illness, the limitations of Western me...

Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast and it is a common member of the human gut flora. It does not proliferate outside the human b...

Allergy and Asthma: The Basics to Best Practices is intended to serve as a single comprehensive reference covering all needed knowledge of allergic...

Cancer Immunotherapy Principles and Practice, from the Society of Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), is the authoritative reference on cancer immunobi...

A deeply reported and entertainingly written exploration of the human immune system and how it works. --USA Today National Bestseller * The ess...

The immune system is central to human health and the focus of much medical research. Growing understanding of the immune system, and especially the...

For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name cancer (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian ...

This unique textbook provides information on the dramatic advances taking place in the field of inflammatory (autoimmune) diseases and their therap...

This book provides new research on immunosuppressives. Chapter One focuses on practical issues concerning immunosuppression in nephrology. Chapter ...

Janis Kubys groundbreaking introduction to immunology was the first textbook for the course actually written to be a textbook. Like no other text, ...

Being diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) can be a severe disappointment, and life after diagnosis can be defined as an existence fil...

It is well established that in auto-immune diseases there is a chronic systemic inflammatory process that predominantly affects the joints. This ha...

Lupus is one of many disorders of the immune system known as auto-immune diseases, wherein the immune system attacks parts of the patient''''s body...

In 2010 the total economic cost of motor vehicle crashes in the United States was $277 billion. This represents the present value of lifetime econo...

As a number of diseases emerge or reemerge thus stimulating new vaccine development opportunities to help prevent those diseases, it can be especia...