Immune Response in the Critically Ill (Update in Intensive Care Medicine)
Contributors: John C. Marshall (Editor); Jonathan Cohen (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer; Springer-Verlag
Published: April 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9783540425892
Subjects: Immunology; Intensive care medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Critical Care; Medical / Critical Care
First sentence: For three quarters of a century, immunologists have based their theories and experiments on the fundamental belief that the primary function of the immune system is to discriminate between self and non-self and that, if the system were perfect, it would attack everything that is non-self and be totally tolerant of anything that is self.