Eco-immunology
Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives
Editors: Malagoli, Davide, Ottaviani, Enzo (Eds.)
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- Limits of present-day immunology laboratories
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This book represents a cutting-edge contribution giving an all-around perspective of eco-immunology today. Beside questions of the utmost importance for the whole community of immunologists, e.g, the intrinsic limits of immunological experiments performed at the bench on a limited number of selected models, the book covers several other facets of the eco-immunological approach, including host-parasite interactions, human aging and population immunology. Throughout the book the importance of population dynamics and evolutionary diversification of immune systems is frequently recalled, and makes the reader aware of the basic similarities and differences existing between humans and the models adopted for studying human immune system. The evidenced differences have been recently challenging the reliability of several established animal models and in the book it is discussed for the first time in analytical terms whether mice are reliable models of human inflammatory disorders.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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From Immunology to Eco-Immunology: More than a New Name
Pages 1-19
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System Biology Models and Conceptualizations Applied to Eco-Immunology
Pages 21-47
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Reproductive and Immune System Interactions in the Context of Life History and Sexual Selection Theory
Pages 49-72
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Host-Parasite Interactions
Pages 73-92
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Immune-Neuroendocrine Integration and Its Evolution
Pages 93-104
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Eco-immunology
- Book Subtitle
- Evolutive Aspects and Future Perspectives
- Editors
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- Davide Malagoli
- Enzo Ottaviani
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-017-8712-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-017-8712-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8711-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0329-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 179
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics
