How the immune system works

This book offers fifteen easy-to-follow lectures which provide an introduction to all key elements of immunology, followed by practical discussion on how each of the components interacts with one another. The book has been updated for its fourth edition to reflect today's immunology teaching and includes updated discussion of B and T cell memory, T cell activation, vaccines, immunodeficiency, and cancer. Topics covered: An overview; the innate immune system; B cells and antibodies; the magic of antigen presentation; T cell actiovation; T cells at work; secondary lymphoid organs and lymphocyte traffic; restraining the immune system; tolerance induction and MHC restriction; immunological memory; vaccines; the immune system gone wrong; immunodeficiency; cancer and the immune system; a critique of the immune system.