Concise Medical Immunology is intended for medical and allied health students taking a short foundation course in immunology. The text provides a concise, clear, clinically oriented, user-friendly introduction to fundamental immunologic principles and their applications in medical practice.

 

Clinical Application boxes and patient vignettes help students connect basic immunology with real-life clinical practice. Each chapter ends with a bulleted summary and review questions. Appendices include a lexicon of immunologic abbreviations and acronyms and a comprehensive glossary of immunologic terms with detailed definitions.

1. Introduction to the immune system: Antigens and the concept of self versus nonself 

2. Self, non-self and the concept of antigens

3. Innate immune response

4. The innate immune response 

5. The adaptive immune response 

6. Protective immune responses

7. Immune deficiency

8. Hypersensitivity reactions

9. Autoimmunity and tolerance

10. Transplantation

11. Immunotherapy and immunosuppression 

Appendix A. Tools and Assays of Immune Function

Appendix B. CD designation and function 

Appendix C. Chemokines, cytokines, and their receptors

Appendix D. Answers to review questions

Glossary

Index