The lymphatic system
By: Julie McDowell, and Michael Windelspecht
Contributors: Windelspecht, Michael, 1963-
Series: Human body systems (Westport, Conn.); Human body systems (Westport, Conn.)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780313062582
Subjects: Lymphatics; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical referencies (p. [165]-166) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. Available via the World Wide Web. Access is limited to subscribers of ebooks.greenwood.com.
Table of contents: title: The chemicals and cells of the lymphatic system; title: The lymph system: and examination of the lymph nodes and lymphatic circulation in the body; title: Secondary lymphatic organs: an examination of the lymphatic functions of the spleen, tonsils, adenoid, Peyer's patches, and appendix; title: The immune response: cell-mediated and antibody-mediated responses; title: The development of the lymphatic system; title: History of discovery from the ancients to the nineteenth century; title: The lymphatic system in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; title: Diseases of the lymphatic system: cancer; title: Diseases of the lymphatic system: primary and secondary lymphatic organs; title: Allergies and autoimmune responses; title: The influence of nutrition on the immune response.