Overview
- Editors:
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Frans P. Nijkamp
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Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Pathophysiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Michael J. Parnham
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PLIVA Research Institute Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
- Four related topics in one volume
- Recent developments in drug research
- Modern two-column book-format
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Immunotherapeutics
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- Gerhard Dickneite, Peter Gronski, Ernst-Jürgen Kanzy, Friedrich R. Seiler
Pages 247-264
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- Sue McKay, Antoon J.M. van Oosterhout
Pages 265-280
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- Michael J. Parnham, Donatella Verbanac
Pages 391-405
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- Romano Danesi, Guido Bocci, Antonello Di Paolo, Mario Del Tacca
Pages 465-481
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- Ian M. Adcock, Kazuhiro Ito
Pages 483-497
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- Regina M. Botting, Jack H. Botting
Pages 499-510
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- Clarissa Bachmeier, Peter M. Brooks, Richard O. Day, Garry G. Graham, Geoffrey O. Littlejohn, Eric F. Morand et al.
Pages 511-544
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Immunotoxicology
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Front Matter
Pages 557-557
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- Joseph G. Vos, Jan Willem van der Laan, Henk van Loveren, Ruud Albers, Raymond Pieters
Pages 559-589
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Back Matter
Pages 591-662
About this book
The rapid developments in immunology in recent immunomodulatory drugs can be distinguished years have dramatically expanded our knowledge of from their beneficial therapeutic effects. mammalian host defence mechanisms. The molecu- Currently,it is only possible to obtain an overview lar mechanisms of cellular interactions during of these various aspects of immunopharmacology immune responses have been unravelled,the intra- by reading a range of immunological,pharmacol- cellular responses involved in signal transduction ical,diagnostic and toxicological literature. Good delineated and an ever-increasing number of soluble immunological textbooks are available, while mediators of immune and inflammatory reponses immunopharmacology is covered mainly in terms of have been discovered. the inflammatory response. Principles of Immuno- The initial result of this explosion of knowledge pharmacology is intended to provide for the first time has been to provide the researcher and the clinician in a single volume a basic understanding of with an arsenal of diagnostic tools with which the immunological mechanisms,a review of important immunological bases of disease processes can be immunodiagnostic tools and a description of the investigated. This has made disease diagnosis much main pharmacological agents which modify the more precise,enabling the physician to tailor therapy immune response,together with an introduction to much more closely to the individual patient’s needs. immunotoxicology. As such we hope that it will be However,better understanding of disease processes useful as a reference text for physicians,researchers only provides a gradual improvement in therapy. This and students with a rudimentary knowledge of is because the new molecular targets that have beenimmunology.
Reviews
"It has exhausted all problems of immunopharmacology as never any other book has realized previously." (Cellular and Molecular Biology)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Pathophysiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Frans P. Nijkamp
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PLIVA Research Institute Ltd., Zagreb, Croatia
Michael J. Parnham