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Table of Contents
1. Surviving in a Microbial World2. Innate Immunity: How to Detect Invaders
3. Humoral Innate Immunity: Inflammation
4. Humoral Innate Immunity: Antimicrobial Peptides
5. Humoral Innate Immunity: The Complement System
6. Cellular Innate Immunity: Leukocytes
7. Cellular Innate Immunity: Macrophages and Recovery from Inflammation
8. Sickness: The Body’s Innate Responses
9. How Immune Cells Communicate: Cytokines and Their Receptors
10. Antigens: Triggers of Adaptive Immunity
11. Dendritic Cells, Antigen Processing, and Presentation
12. The Major Histocompatibility Complex
13. Lymphoid Organs: Their Structure and Functions
14. Lymphocytes
15. Helper T Cells: Diverse Responses to Antigens
16. B Cells and Their Response to Antigens
17. Antibodies: Soluble Antigen Receptors
18. How Antigen-Binding Receptors Are Made
19. T Cells and the Destruction of Intracellular Invaders
20. Innate Lymphoid Cells
21. Regulation of Adaptive Immunity
22. The Microbiota and the Immune System
23. Immunity on Body Surfaces
24. Immunity in the Fetus and Newborn
25. Vaccines and Their Production
26. The Use of Vaccines
27. Immunity to Bacteria and Fungi
28. Immunity to Viruses
29. Immunity to Parasites
30. Mast Cell- and Eosinophil-Mediated Hypersensitivity
31. Selected Allergic Diseases
32. Red Cell Antigens and Antibody-Mediated Hypersensitivity
33. Immune Complexes and Neutrophil-Mediated Hypersensitivity
34. T Cell-Mediated Hypersensitivities
35. Organ Graft Rejection and Pregnancy
36. Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
37. Autoimmune Diseases and the Loss of Tolerance
38. Selected Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases
39. Selected Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
40. Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases
41. Secondary Immunological Defects
42. Drugs and Other Agents That Affect the Immune System
43. Immunodiagnostic Methods
Authors
Ian R Tizard University Distinguished Professor of Immunology Emeritus, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.Ian R. Tizard, BVMS, BSc, PhD, DSc (Hons), DACVM, is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists and a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, The Texas Veterinary Medical Center at Texas A &M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. Dr. Tizard earned his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1965. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Pathology and a PhD in Immunology. After completing his studies, Dr. Tizard became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, where he remained as a professor until 1982 when he moved to TAMU. Dr. Tizard wrote the first standardized textbook on Veterinary Immunology in 1977. This text, now in its 11th edition, is used worldwide, and has played a major role in establishing Immunology among the key disciplines.
