Visualizing Immunity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dustin, Michael (Editor), McGavern, Dorian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 334
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.; Molecular Medicine.

The immune system is not bound by a single tissue but is instead bestowed with the challenge of warding off invading pathogens throughout the body. Constant surveillance of the body requires that the immune system be highly mobile and able to purge pathogens from all tissues. Because each tissue pre...