Immune Response in the Criticaly Ill (Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine)
Contributors: John C. Marshall (Editor); Jonathan Cohen (Editor)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Telos
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9783540625834
Subjects: Immunology; Intensive Care Medicine; Medical; Immunological aspects; Mechanisms Of Immune Response; Pathophysiology; Medical / Nursing; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Infectious Diseases; Critical Care; Emergency Medicine; Septicemia; Critical Illness; Immunity; Immunologic Factors
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.