Overview
- Connects the knowledge of immune regulation in different tissues
- Adds insight to readers’ understanding of the “Hygiene hypothesis”
- Presents basic science aspects relevant for diagnosis and disease management
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases (BAID)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Organs and tissues that can tolerate little or no inflammation have developed multiple overlapping mechanisms of immune protection in the absence of inflammation. These areas have been designated “immune-privileged sites” by Peter Medawar and include the central nervous system, eye, reproductive tract, testis and possibly the liver. Mechanisms of immune homeostasis found in less immune-regulated organs are often evident in the immune privileged sites and vice versa. It is important that the non-inflammatory mechanisms that contribute to immune privilege allow host defense against infectious organisms.
This volume highlights the mechanisms leading to immune privilege in tissues and organs, the deviation of immune responses and the modification of the behavior of the immune cells that manage to cross the blood barriers of tissues, in the context of infection.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infection, Immune Homeostasis and Immune Privilege
Editors: Joan Stein-Streilein
Series Title: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0445-5
Publisher: Springer Basel
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0444-8Published: 04 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0797-5Published: 09 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-0445-5Published: 03 July 2012
Series ISSN: 2504-3811
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3838
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 156
Topics: Molecular Medicine, Medical Microbiology