Immunology for Surgeons
Immunology for Surgeons

Author: Andrew P. Zbar

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002-02-20

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9781852334826

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An understanding of the complex workings of the immune system is essential for all surgeons. Immune responses play a crucial part in the way human body reacts to infection and trauma. Immunology for Surgeons contains a high-level discussion of this difficult clinical area. The text looks at tumor immunobiology and immunotherapy as well as the worldwide results of various clinical trials. The topics discussed focus on relevant immunological and molecular biological trends for future treatment of complex surgical disease. The main objective of the text is to render a difficult area accessible for the postgraduate surgical trainee and established surgeon who is interested in immunology.

Immune Modulating Agents
Immune Modulating Agents

Author: Kresina

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-10-17

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780824701031

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Discussing the systemic immune response in the contexts of health, disease, and therapy, this unique resource-the only broadly based book of its kind available on the subject-offers comprehensive examinations of the pathways and agents that affect the human immune response and provides state-of-the-art presentations on practical methods of immune modulation. Focuses on the immune response and modulation in infectious diseases, such as HIV, hepatitis, and parasitic infections and highlights immune modulating agents in gastrointestinal diseases, sepsis, cancer, and autoimmunity! Written by over 50 international authorities representing distinguished institutions in nine countries, Immune Modulating Agents introduces basic immunoregulatory mechanisms as homeostasis details cytokines, cellular and humoral immune responses, and hematopoiesis describes neuroendocrine - immune system interactions and the role of psychological stress on immune competence delineates factors that influence disease susceptibility, including nutrition covers drug delivery systems, gene therapy, organ transplantation, arthritis treatment, and vaccination strategies shows how to design clinical trials using immune modulating agents and more!

Immune Mediated Diseases
Immune Mediated Diseases

Author: Michael R Shurin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-09-23

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0387720057

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This volume includes contributions from the speakers of the Second IMD Congress (September 10-15, 2007; Moscow, Russia) who were eager to share some of the academic and clinical enthusiasm that defines the IMD meetings. The goal of the International Immune-Mediated Diseases: From Theory to Therapy (IMD) Congress is to bring the world’s best immunologists and clinicians to Moscow.

Novel Technologies for Vaccine Development
Novel Technologies for Vaccine Development

Author: Igor S Lukashevich

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 3709118182

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This book presents a detailed overview of the development of new viral vector-based vaccines before discussing two major applications: preventive vaccines for infectious diseases and therapeutic cancer vaccines. Viral vector-based vaccines hold a great potential for development into successful pharmaceutical products and several examples at the advanced pre-clinical or clinical stage are presented. Nevertheless, the most efforts were focused on novel and very innovative technologies for new generation of vector-based vaccines. Furthermore, specific topics such as delivery and adjuvant and protection strategies for cell-mediated-based vaccines are presented. Given its scope, the book is a “must read” for all those involved in vaccine development, both in academia and industrial vaccine development.

Dendritic Cells in Fundamental and Clinical Immunology
Dendritic Cells in Fundamental and Clinical Immunology

Author: Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1997-08-31

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780306455926

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These proceedings contain selected contributions from the participants to the Fourth International Symposium on Dendritic cells that was held in Venice (Lido) Italy, from Oc tober 5 to 10, 1996. The symposium was attended by more than 500 scientists coming from 24 different countries. Studies on dendritic cells (DC) have been greatly hampered by the difficulties in preparing sufficient cell numbers and in a reasonable pure form. At this meeting it has been shown that large quantities of DC can be generated from precursors in both mice and humans, and this possibility has enormously encouraged studies aimed to characterize DC physiology and DC-specific genes, and to employ DC therapeutically as adjuvants for im munization. The possibility of generating large numbers of autologous DC that can be used in the manipulation of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases has tremendously boosted dendritic cell research and the role of DC in a number of medi cal areas has been heatedly discussed.

Rejection and Tolerance
Rejection and Tolerance

Author: J.-L. Touraine

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-12-31

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780792326717

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Proceedings of the 25th Conference on Transplantation and Clinical Immunology 24--26 May 1993