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"Research on immunity has dramatically expanded in recent six decades, yielding exciting new information concerning the molecules and cells that initiate the multi-faceted processes combined under the term 'Molecular Immunity'. These processes are crucial for protection against invaders, but are also responsible for certain pathogenic conditions. Prof. Kendall Smith, a prominent contributor to this field, provides in this book, for the first time, the detailed history of thoughts and consequent achievements in the field of cellular immunology."
Dr Igal Gery
Scientist Emeritus
National Eye Institute, NIH
Scientist Emeritus
National Eye Institute, NIH
This book covers a scientific history of the discoveries in immunology of the past 60-years, i.e. what was discovered, who made the advances and how they accomplished them, and why others did not.
All molecular advances occurred in the last 60 years, and no one has described them.
Sample Chapter(s)Prologue
1: Twenty Years of Cellular Discovery
Contents:
- Twenty Years of Cellular Discovery
- From Activities to Molecules: The Interleukins
- The Beginnings of Molecular Immunology
- Molecular Mechanisms of T Cell Cytolysis
- Molecular Mechanisms of T Cell "Help"
- The Molecules of Macrophages
- Additional T Cell signals: Co-stimulatory and Co-inhibitory
- Regulatory T Cells
- Immunotherapy
Readership: Undergraduates, graduate students and academics in medicine (immunology) and life sciences (molecular biology, genetics).
