Immunity: The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease (Primers in Biology)

By Anthony L. Defranco, Richard M. Locksley, Miranda Robertson

Book Overview

An understanding of the immune system is central to the understanding of how the body interacts with its surroundings, and how it both protects itself and responds to infectious disease. But what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878931791
• ISBN13: 9780878931798
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Illustrations

I am a biomedical engineering postdoc and am using this book to help me learn immunology on my own. The illustrations are numerous and very helpful and the level of detail is appropriate for someone with at least some biology background. I highly recommend this book for those looking for a comprehensive overview of the subject.

Excellent quick review of Immunology

Immunity (Primers in Biology) I purchased this book to get acquainted with some immunological concepts. I am overall pleased with the book and highly recommend it to any beginner. Each topic is covered on two pages, with most recent concepts and papers highlighted in the box below the text. Diagrams are very useful and the access to the website allows to download the chapters, diagrams, new updated chapters and tests to quiz what you learned.

A beautiful textbook

This book has a lot of beautiful diagrams to help understanding of recent advance in immunology and immune-related diseases. These diagrams can also be downloaded from the distributor's website. This book is perfect especially for non-experts who learned immunology in schooldays and want to renew their knowledge now,

excellent

I was looking for a text I could read to bring me back up to speed in current basic immunology. This was very good. Tightly organized, some of the figures a little busy and small but understandable. And a fair price for such a text.