Table of Contents:
- 1. Surviving in a microbial world
- 2. Innate immunity:how to detect invaders
- 3. Humoral innate immunity:inflamation
- 4. Humoral innate immunity:antimicrobial peptides
- 5. Humoral Innate immunity:the complement system
- 6. Cellular innate immunity:leukocytes
- 7. Cellular innate immunity:macrophages and recovery from inflamation
- 8. Sickness:the body's innate responses
- 9. How immune cells communicate:cytokines and their receptors
- 10. Antigens:triggers of adaptive immunity
- 11. Dendritic cells,antigen processing, and presentation
- 12. The major histocompatibility complex
- 13. Lymphoid organs:their structure and functions
- 14. Lymphocytes
- 15. Helper T cells:diverse responses to antigens