Origin of Anti-Tumor Immunity Failure in Mammals

• Main Author: Bubanovic, Ivan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Gynecology.; Oncology.; Evolutionary biology.; Animal physiology.; Biomedicine.; Animal Physiology.; Evolutionary Biology.

The history of science has shown the majority of hypotheses to be wrong. Sharp scientific criticism and strictly controlled experimental studies reject most of the hypotheses, leaving behind only a small number of assumptions and ideas. Nevertheless, each logical assumption should have its rightful...

Table of Contents:

• The Vertebrate Immune System
• Alloimmunity and Pregnancy
• Anti-tumor Immunity Failure in Mammals
• Immunosurveillance Mechanisms of the Fetoplacental Unit
• Tumors in Mammals and Non-mammalian Classes of Vertebrates.