| Introduction | |
| Preface | |
| Fundamentals Of The Immmune Response Mhc | |
| MHC | |
| Cytokine receptor heterogeneity | |
| Measuring cytokine polymorphisms: functional variations and disease associations | |
| Signaling molecules affecting immune response | |
| Toll like receptors in innate immunity | |
| DNA sequence-specific transcription factors | |
| Genetic factors diversity in NK and NKT cells | |
| Serologic Assays | |
| Handling sera and obtaining fluid from different compartments practical considerations Acute- phase proteins and inflammation: immunological and clinical implications, Complement in health and disease | |
| Immunoglobulin titers and immunoglobulin subtypes | |
| Human antiglobulin responses | |
| Measuring Rheumatoid Factors | |
| Autoantibodies | |
| Measuring antibody affinity using fluorescence | |
| SLE associated tests | |
| Multiplexed serum assays | |
| Cellular Enumeration And Phenotyping | |
| Handling and storage of cells and sera: practical considerations | |
| Phenotypic and functional measurements on circulating immune cells and their subsets Natural Killer cells | |
| Tetramer Analysis | |
| Peripheral blood naive and memory B cells | |
| Dendritic cells | |
| Monocytes and macrophages | |
| Tumor cells | |
| Intracellular cytokine assays | |
| Cellular Function And Physiology | |
| Cytolytic assays | |
| Mixed leukocyte reactions | |
| Antigen/mitogen-stimulated lymphocyte proliferation | |
| Monitoring cell death | |
| Cytokine enzyme linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT) assay | |
| Testing natural killer cells | |
| Provocative Assays in vivo | |
| Delayed type hypersensitivity responses | |
| Rebuck windows: granulocyte function | |
| The vascular and coagulation systems | |
| Sentinel node assays | |
| Imaging inflammation | |
| Assays In Acute And Chronic Diseases | |
| Cancersolid tumors | |
| Cancerhematologic disorders | |
| Autoimmunitytype 1 diabetes | |
| Autoimmunitysystemic lupus erythematosus | |
| Autoimmunitymultiple sclerosis | |
| Autoimmunitygastrointestinal | |
| Autoimmunityendocrine | |
| Autoimmunityvasculitis Transplantation | |
| Viral responses HIV 1 | |
| Viral responses Epstein- Barr virus | |
| Viral responseshepatitis Dermatology | |
| Atherosclerosis | |
| Primary immunodeficiencies | |
| Asthma and allergy | |
| New Technologies | |
| Cerum proteomic profiling and analysis Imaging cytometry | |
| Cancer biometrics | |
| Genomics and microarrays | |
| Image informatics | |
| Index of manufacturers and suppliers, addresses, web site | |
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