The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics 1st Edition

The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780323951876,0323951872,9780323951883, 0323951880

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0323951880
• ISBN 13: 9780323951883
• Author: Louis J. Catania

The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease and Beyond provides a provocative approach to immunology as a “double-edged sword.” While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the basic science of immunology and its intimate genetic associations, biomedical hypotheses asserting immunology as the basis of all human diseases, and elaborate on immunology as “the enemy within us.” This engaging, original approach to a science so personal provides new and invaluable understanding on the bioscience that controls our lives.

Table contents:

1. The innate (aka “natural”) immune system and immunity

2. The adaptive (aka “acquired”) immune system: from friend to foe

3. Genetics and genomics

4. Chronic inflammation: “Enemy #1”

5. Autoimmune disease: when self becomes the villain

6. Cancer: immunology’s cruelest enemy and greatest challenge

7. Immunology: The science of pandemics, infectious disease and COVID-19

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