How the Immune System Recognizes Self and Nonself Immunoreceptors and Their Signaling /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kitamura, Daisuke (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Medical biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.; Medical Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.

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Table of Contents:

• Recognition of Pathogens: Toll-Like Receptors
• Strategies of Natural Killer (NK) Cell Recognition and Their Roles in Tumor Immunosurveillance
• Recent Progress on Paired Immunoglobulin-Like Receptors
• Self-nonself Recognition through B-Cell Antigen Receptor
• How Do T Cells Discriminate Self from Nonself?
• Fc Receptors
• Self and Nonself Recognition by Coreceptors on B Lymphocytes: Regulation of B Lymphocytes by CD19, CD21, CD22, and CD72
• Co-Receptors in the Positive and Negative Regulation of T-Cell Immunity.