The Development of Immunologic Competence

• Main Author: Ribatti, Domenico (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Life sciences.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Life Sciences, general.

This book traces significant aspects of the history of immunology, exploring the immune system and immunodeficiency. The author recounts human hematopoietic development, and how a distinction of the immune system into thymus-dependent and thymus-independent components has been demonstrated in differ...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.- Introduction.- Human hematopoietic development.-The Bursa of Fabricius.- The Thymus.- Clinical correlates
• References
• Index.                      .