Immunology of Gastrointestinal Disease

Buch | Softcover

307 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-010-5323-5 (ISBN)

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Gastrointestinal diseases present a considerable problem in human medicine in terms of both morbidity and mortality. the immunological features of idiopathic inflammatory gut diseases such as Crohn's disease and intractable diarrhoea; the iatrogenic diseases of the gut such as graft-versus-host disease and small bowel allografts;

Gastrointestinal diseases present a considerable problem in human medicine in terms of both morbidity and mortality. The aim of this book is to cover the different immunological disorders of the gut with special reference to immunopathological and protective mechanisms. It will be of general interest to clinicians, scientists and students concerned with the gastrointestinal tract.
Topics covered include: the current status of research into toxin-secreting pathogens, Campylobacter, Giardia and HIV; the immunological features of idiopathic inflammatory gut diseases such as Crohn's disease and intractable diarrhoea; the genesis of the flat mucosa; the iatrogenic diseases of the gut such as graft-versus-host disease and small bowel allografts; the immune mechanisms and lesions in the gut of patients with parasitic nematode infections (very important in the tropics).
Basic background on the immune apparatus in the intestine is also discussed, as are the effects of inflammation on intestinal permeability.

1 The cells and tissues of the gastrointestinal tract.- 2 The mucosal immune system in inflammatory bowel disease.- 3 Coelic disease.- 4 Immunology of gastrointestinal food allergy in infancy and early childhood.- 5 Immunolgy of intractable diarrhoea.- 6 Immunology of intestinal transplantation in humans and animals.- 7 Intestinal graft-versus-host disease.- 8 In vitro enteropathy.- 9 Molecular basis of cell migration into normal and inflamed gut.- 10 Intestinal permeation of molecules in health and disease.- 11 Immunology of gastrointestinal lymphoma.- 12 The gut in HIV infection.- 13 Immunity to enterotoxin-producing bacteria.- 14 Host responses to Helicobacter (Campylobacter) pylori infection.- 15 The immunology of giardiasis.- 16 Intestinal nematode infections.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.10.2012
Reihe/Serie	Immunology and Medicine ; 19
Zusatzinfo	XI, 307 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Viszeralchirurgie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Gastroenterologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10	94-010-5323-5 / 9401053235
ISBN-13	978-94-010-5323-5 / 9789401053235
Zustand	Neuware