In immunology, an adjuvant refers to any agent that stimulates the immune system and thus, increases the response to a vaccine. Optimal conditions ...

One of the major problems in clinical practice is the diagnosis of cancer and determining how to manage cancer patients. More than any other diseas...

This monograph summarizes the data of the prospective study on the immunological characteristics of cancer patients with sepsis and septic shock de...

Proceedings of the International Congress held in Chamrousse (France), 1-2 February 1991.

There is a large and rapidly growing body of literature on the immunology in clinic practice. In this book, the authors have made an effort to brie...

Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Some portions of the immune system itself have immu...

This book provides new research on immunosuppressives. Chapter One focuses on practical issues concerning immunosuppression in nephrology. Chapter ...

Immunotherapy is a medical term defined as "treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response". Immunotherapies are de...

This book is one of the first scientific publications that the subject food combines with genetics and genomics and information provides about new ...

Proceedings of the Conference Held in Bergamo on 13-14 June 1988.

An infectious disease threat is unique because of the transmissibility of diseases and the mobility of human populations. Infectious disease threat...

This book examines The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the corresponding basic facts, U.S. contributions and issues for Con...

Inflammation is the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. It is a pro...

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, collectively termed inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), are complex disorders because of their wide variation...

Infliximab is an established therapy for some auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic ar...

Interferons are cytokines that are very important in regulating both innate and adaptive immune response. Of the two different types of interferons...

Our understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms of the malaria parasite has accumulated over the years with the advent of genomic knowledge playing ...

In this book mechanisms of development of cancer cells through hybridisation of somatic cells are discussed which leads to the karyogamy, hybridisa...

Laryngeal cancer is one of the most common cancers of the head and neck. The best diagnostic approach is provided by performing a full endoscopic e...

This book focuses on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for various types of laryngeal diseases. Laryngopharyngeal reflux, for example, which co...

Cancer is a group of different diseases (over 100) characterised by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer can arise in many site...

Cancer is a group of different diseases (more than 100) characterised by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Cancer can arise in many...

Immunology is the study of the body's protection from foreign macromolecules or invading organisms and the responses to them. These invaders includ...