Published January, 2013
By Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard and Nigel Curtis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Course covers topics in infectious diseases in children and is intended for Pediatric Infectious disease trainees, trainers, and all those who manage children with infections.

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Published January, 2013
By John Playfair, Gregory Bancroft and J. H. L. Playfair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Gives a perfectly balanced overview of the field, describing the key infectious agents our bodies encounter and how our immune system responds to them. It also explains how diseases are spread and what measures we can take to control this spread, from vaccination to increasing public awareness.

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Published January, 2013
By Sharon E. Jacob and Elise M. Herro
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Practical Patch Testing and Chemical Allergens in Contact Dermatitis covers the most relevant allergens in a concise and algorithmic fashion, with practical tips for patch testing.

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Published January, 2013
By F. Inman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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These data indicate a fruitful area for future investigations on the chemical aspects of the various antigens encoded within the human MHC. Do changes in the structure of lymphocyte surface glycoproteins, especially changes in their carbohydrate portions, occur during normal lymphoid differen tiation?

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Published January, 2013
By Steven Gillis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Their chapter traces the development of a quantitative assay for assessment of IL-2 receptors based on the preparation and use of radiolabeled IL-2 prepared biosynthetically with the aid of IL-2-pro ducer leukemic cells.

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Published January, 2013
By Noel Rose
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from these cells which constitute the RES.

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Published January, 2013
By F. P. Inman and W. J. Mandy
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Although much biochemical and immunological information about this protein has been uncovered, it is not understood how such an inaccessible self-antigen can serve as the focal point in the central ner vous system for myelin basic protein-specific EAE-inducing T cells.

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Published January, 2013
By G. Jeanette Thorbecke and Vincent K. Tsiagbe
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This book meets the demand of a recent surge of interest in germinal centers, the foci of antigen-induced, rapidly proliferating B lymphocytes, representing sites in mammalian lymphoid tissue where memory B cells are generated.

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Published January, 2013
By R. Reisfeld
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Since the intent of the series is to focus attention on research at the molecular level in any aspect of immunology, the editors and publisher felt the term "Immunochemistry" should be replaced with "Molecular Immunology."

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Published January, 2013
By H. Eisen
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This extra piece is absent in the Ig extracted from or secreted by plasma cells, presumably because it is rapidly cleaved from the "preimmunoglobulin" chain within the cell, but the extra piece probably plays a key role in directing the synthesis of prelg to the cell's secretory pathway.

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