دانلود کتاب Theoretical and Experimental Insights into Immunology

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Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Computer Modelling of the Immune System: Who are the “Fruitori”?....Pages 3-13
Is the Function of the Immune System only to Protect?....Pages 15-26
The Immune System in an Evolutionary Perspective....Pages 27-47
A Simulation of the Humoral Immune System....Pages 49-62
Probability of Self-Nonself Discrimination....Pages 63-70
Contextual Discrimination of Antigens by the Immune System: Towards a Unifying Hypothesis....Pages 71-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Theoretical Insight into Antigen-Induced T-Cell Unresponsiveness....Pages 93-115
Interaction of Interleukin-2 with its Cell Surface Receptors: Interpretation of Equilibrium Binding Experiments via Scatchard Plots....Pages 117-148
T Memory Cells in a Model of T Cell Memory....Pages 149-162
A “Minimal” Basic T-Cell Model....Pages 163-170
Mathematical Modeling of Th1-Th2 Dynamics....Pages 171-190
Complex Outcomes in Mouse Leishmaniasis: A Model for the Dynamics of the TH1 Response....Pages 191-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Generic Modelling of the Immune Network....Pages 205-222
Growth and Recruitment in the Immune Network....Pages 223-247
Memory B Cells Stabilize Cycles in a Repressive Network....Pages 249-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Implications of Cooperativity and Dimensional Complexity for Immunological Recognition....Pages 263-278
Shannon Information as a Measure of Amino Acid Diversity....Pages 279-287
Experimental Strategies, Antigenicity and Interpretation of Intermolecular Interactions....Pages 289-296
Receptor — Ligand Interactions and Diffusion Effects....Pages 297-305
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Mathematical Modeling of the Immune Response During Acute Viral Infections....Pages 309-321
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Mimicking the Strategy of the Immune System: Insight Gained from Mathematics....Pages 323-332
Rash Theory....Pages 333-352
On Second Symmetry and Aids....Pages 353-364
Superantigens, Alloreactivity, Immunologic Tolerance, and AIDS: A Unified Hypothesis....Pages 365-378
Paradoxical Effects of Suppressor T Cells in Adjuvant Arthritis: Neural Network Analysis....Pages 379-395
Idiotypic Regulation in Experimental Autoimmune Thyroiditis (EAT)....Pages 397-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
The Secrets of Crypticity and its Relationship to Medical Problems: Autoimmune Disease, Transplantation and Cancer....Pages 411-424
Role of Cryptic Self Germline Encoded Ig Epitopes in the Selection of the T cell Repertoire....Pages 425-436
T Cell Repertoire in Autoreactive Immunoglobulin-Transgenic Mice....Pages 437-457
Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on Idiotypic Mimicry....Pages 459-475
Back Matter....Pages 477-480