Surviving in a microbial world -- Innate immunity: how to detect invaders -- Humoral innate immunity: inflammatory mediators -- Humoral innate immunity: the complement system -- Cellular innate immunity: neutrophils and phagocytosis -- Cellular innate immunity: macrophages and recovery from inflammation -- Sickness: the body's innate responses -- How immune cells communicate: cytokines and their receptors -- Antigens: triggers of adaptive immunity -- Dendritic cells and antigen processing -- The major histocompatibility complex -- Organs of the immune system -- Lymphocytes -- Helper t cells and their response to antigens -- B cells and their response to antigens -- Antibodies: soluble antigen receptors -- How antigen-binding receptors are made -- T cells and the destruction of cell-associated invaders -- Innate lymphoid cells -- Regulation of adaptive immunity -- The microbiota and the immune system -- Immunity at body surfaces -- Immunity in the fetus and newborn -- Vaccines and their production -- The use of vaccines -- Immunity to bacteria and fungi -- Immunity to viruses -- Immunity to parasites -- Mast cell and eosinophil mediated hypersensitivity -- Allergic syndromes -- Red cell antigens and antibody-mediated hypersensitivity -- Immune-complexes and neutrophil-mediated hypersensitivity -- T cell-mediated hypersensitivity -- Organ graft rejection and pregnancy -- Cancer immunology and immunotherapy -- Autoimmunity: general principles -- Organ-specific autoimmune diseases -- Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases -- Primary immunodeficiencies -- Secondary immunological defects -- Drugs and other agents that affect the immune system -- Immunodiagnostic techniques -- Evolution of the immune system
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