Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series)
by Richard A Harvey (Author), Pamela C Champe (Author), Bruce D Fisher (Author)

Product Details
* Paperback: 432 pages
* Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2 edition (July 1, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0781782155

Book Description
Now in full color, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology, Second Edition enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about medical microbiology. The book has the hallmark features for which Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews volumes are so popular: an outline format, 450 full-color illustrations, end-of-chapter summaries, review questions, plus an entire section of clinical case studies with full-color illustrations. This edition's medical/clinical focus has been sharpened to provide a high-yield review. Five additional case studies have been included, bringing the total to nineteen. Review questions have been reformatted to comply with USMLE Step 1 style, with clinical vignettes.

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Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans

Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals and Humans (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology) (Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology)
by Holger Heine (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 242 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (December 18, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 3540739297

Book Description
All living organisms are in a constant battle against their environment. Since uncontained microorganisms would simply overgrow all higher animals, the evolution of multicellular organisms required adequate and efficient defense mechanisms to protect their own integrity and to ensure their own survival. These defense mechanisms, encompassing receptor proteins that sense the presence of pathogens and effector molecules that are involved in controlling them, are the elemental parts of the innate immune system.
For many species, the innate immune system is the sole active defense system. Long thought to be an unspecific immune response, the discovery of the Toll-like receptors and their ligands finally revealed just how specific the innate immune response actually is.
This book wants to give an overview of our current knowledge about the innate immune system of plants, animals and humans. It not only covers the innate immune mechanisms and responses of so diverse organisms such as plants, Cnidaria, Drosophila, urochordates and zebrafish, but also the major receptor systems in mammalians and humans as well as the central defense mechanisms, antimicrobial peptides and the complement system.

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