Lippincotts illustrated reviews: immunology offers a highly visual presentation of essential immunology material, with all the popular features of the series: more than 300 full-color annotated illustrations, an outline format, chapter summaries, review questions and case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. Lippincotts illustrated reviews: immunology can be used as a review text for a short immunology course, or paired with lippincotts illustrated reviews: microbiology for a combined microbiology/immunology course.key features: 300 usmle-style questions in a quiz-bank for students for valuable review fully searchable online text on thepoint for easy access library of individual image components from which instructors can assemble their own figures in powerpoint table of contents:unit 1: sense of being: the concept of self and self/non-self recognition the need for self recognition antigens and receptors unit ii: the innate immune system barriers to infection cells of the innate immune system innate immune function unit iii: the adaptive immune system molecules of adaptive immunity cells and organs generation of immune diversity: lymphocyte antigen receptors lymphocyte development: b cells and t cells lymphocyte activation lymphocyte function regulation of adaptive responses unit iv: clinical aspects of immunity the well patient, or how innate and adaptive immune responses maintain health hypersensitivity states immunodeficiency autoimmunity transplantation immune pharmacotherapy tumor immunity measurement of immune function - from Amzon