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PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND INNATE IMMUNITY
Chapter 1: Basic Concepts in Immunology
Chapter 2: Innate Immunity

PART II: THE RECOGNITION OF ANTIGEN
Chapter 3: Antigen Recognition by B-cell and T-cell Receptors
Chapter 4: The Generation of Lymphocyte Antigen Receptors
Chapter 5: Antigen Presentation to T Lymphocytes

PART III: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATURE LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR REPERTOIRES
Chapter 6: Signaling Through Immune System Receptors
Chapter 7: The Development and Survival of Lymphocytes

PART IV: THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE
Chapter 8: T Cell-Mediated Immunity
Chapter 9: The Humoral Immune Response
Chapter 10: Dynamics of Adaptive Immunity
Chapter 11: The Mucosal Immune System

PART V: THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Chapter 12: Failures of Host Defense Mechanism
Chapter 13: Allergy and Hypersensitivity
Chapter 14: Autoimmunity and Transplantation
Chapter 15: Manipulation of the Immune Response

PART VI: THE ORIGINS OF IMMUNE RESPONSES
Chapter 16: Evolution of the Immune System

Appendix I: Immunologists’Toolbox
Appendix II: CD Antigens
Appendix III: Cytokines and their Receptors
Appendix IV: Chemokines and their Receptors
Appendix V: Immunological Constants
Biographies
Glossary
Index