Avian Immunology – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128187081,0128187085
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128187085
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128187081
- Author: Bernd Kaspers, Karel A. Schat , Thomas Göbel, Lonneke Vervelde
Avian Immunology, Third Edition contains a detailed description of the avian innate immune system, encompassing the mucosal, enteric, respiratory and reproductive systems. The diseases and disorders it covers, include immunodepressive diseases and immune evasion, autoimmune diseases, and tumors of the immune system. Practical aspects of vaccination are examined as well. Extensive appendices summarize resources for scientists including cell lines, inbred chicken lines, cytokines, chemokines, and monoclonal antibodies.
With contributions from the foremost international experts in the field, Avian Immunology 3rd, provides the most up-to-date crucial information not only for poultry health professionals and avian biologists, but also for comparative and veterinary immunologists, graduate students and veterinary students with an interest in avian immunology.
Table contents:
- The importance of the avian immune system and its unique features
- Structure of the avian lymphoid system
- Development of the avian immune system
- B cells, the bursa of Fabricius and the generation of antibody reperotires
- Avian T cells: antigen recognition and lineage
- Structure and evolution of avian immunoglobulins
- Avian innate immune responses
- The avian MHC
- Avian antigen presenting cells
- Avian cytokines and chemokines
- Immunogenetics and mapping immunological functions
- The avian mucosal immune system
- The avian enteric immune system in health and disease
- The avian respiratory immune system
- The avian reproductive immune system
- Avian immunosuppressive diseases and immune evasion
- Factors modulating the avian immune system
- Autoimmune diseases of poultry
- Tumours of the avian immune system
- Practical aspects of poultry vaccination
- Comparative immunology of agricultural birds
- Ecoimmunology
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