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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Infection, Immune Homeostasis and Immune Privilege
  name:
    name part: Stein-Streilein, Joan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 156 p. online resource.
  abstract: Organs and tissues that can tolerate little or no inflammation have developed multiple overlapping mechanisms of immune protection in the absence of inflammation. These areas have been designated “immune-privileged sites” by Peter Medawar and include the central nervous system, eye, reproductive tract, testis and possibly the liver. Mechanisms of immune homeostasis found in less immune-regulated organs are often evident in the immune privileged sites and vice versa. It is important that the non-inflammatory mechanisms that contribute to immune privilege allow host defense against infectious organisms. This volume highlights the mechanisms leading to immune privilege in tissues and organs, the deviation of immune responses and the modification of the behavior of the immune cells that manage to cross the blood barriers of tissues, in the context of infection.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Eye as Immune Privileged Site -- Immune Privilege of the Testis – Meaning, Mechanisms and Manifestations -- The Role of Intrauterine Immune Privilege in Perinatal Infectious Diseases -- The Liver as an Immune Privileged Site -- Immune Homeostasis of the Lung: The Role of Regulatory NKT Cells in Asthma -- Immune Homeostasis of the Gut.
  note: edited by Joan Stein-Streilein.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Medical microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Molecular biology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine
  subject:
    topic: Molecular Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Medical Microbiology
  classification: QH506
  classification: 611.01816
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
  identifier: 9783034804455
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0445-5
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    record creation date: 120703
    record change date: 20151103123132.0
    record identifier: 978-3-0348-0445-5