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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System

3642596746

9783642596742

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Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System

[Book]

edited by Louis Pasquier, Gary W. Litman.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

2000

(x, 326 pages 81 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.)

Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 248.

Bridge to Invertebrates --;New Approaches Towards an Understanding of Deuterostome Immunity --;The Antimocrobial Host Defense of Drosophila --;Origin and Evolution of the Complement System --;Genome Paralogy --;Phylogeny of Lower Vertebrates and Their Immunological Structures --;Recombination-Activating Genes, Transposition, and the Lymphoid-Specific Combinatorial Immune System: A Common Evolutionary Connection --;Transcription Factor Expression in Lymphocyte Development --;The Phylogenetic Origin of Antigen-Specific Receptors --;Immunoglobulin Isotypes: Structure, Function, and Genetics --;Evolution of Vertebrate Immunoglobulin Variable Gene Segments --;The Immune System of Cartilaginous Fish --;Immune-Type Diversity in the Absence of Somatic Rearrangement --;Evolution and Somatic Diversification of Immunoglobulin Light Chains --;Evolution of the T Cell Receptor Signal Transduction Units.

The comparative approach to immunology can be traced to the era of Pasteur and Metchnikov in which observations regarding foreign recognition in invertebrates was a factor in the develop- ment of the principal concepts that created the foundation of what now is the broad field of immunology.

Human genetics.

Immunology.

Medicine.

edited by Louis Pasquier, Gary W. Litman.

Gary W Litman

Louis Pasquier

[Book]

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