Janeway’s Immunobiology Posted by R Santhosh Kalash on 10/20/2013 11:18:00 am No comments

Janeway's Immunobiology is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses in immunology, as well as for medical students. The book can be used as an introduction to immunology but its scope is sufficiently comprehensive and deep to be useful for more advanced students and working immunologists. Immunobiology presents immunology from the consistent viewpoint of the host's interaction with an environment full of microbes and pathogens, and illustrates that the loss of any component of this system increases host susceptibility to some particular infection. The companion book, Case Studies in Immunology, provides an additional, integrated discussion of clinical topics (diseases covered in Case Studies are indicated by a symbol in the margin of Immunobiology).

This eighth edition retains the overall organization of the previous edition, and chapters in which the field has made important and rapid developments have been extensively revised. The discussion of innate immunity has been substantially expanded and its mechanisms are now treated in two separate chapters, presented in the order in which a pathogen would encounter innate defenses as it attempts to establish an infection. The immediate and soluble defenses are treated in Chapter 2. The complement system is introduced in the context of innate immunity, with the lectin pathway presented before the classical pathway of activation. The induced defenses of innate immunity-including a completely updated treatment of innate sensing-follows in Chapter 3, where various innate cell subsets and their receptors are also described. Signaling pathways are now presented as they are encountered, and not confined to a single chapter. Signaling pathways of the Toll-like receptors and other innate sensors are described in Chapter 3, while antigen receptor signaling pathways and cytokine and apoptotic pathways are retained in Chapter 7. Chapter 10 has been revised to place more emphasis on the trafficking of B cells in peripheral lymphoid organs and the locations at which they encounter antigen. Mucosal immunology (Chapter 12) has been expanded to include more discussion of responses to the commensal microbiota and the role of specialized dendritic cells and regulatory T cells in maintaining tolerance to food antigens and commensal bacteria. The last four chapters-the clinical chapters Chapters 13-16)-reinforce the basic concepts discussed earlier with our latest understanding of the causes of disease, whether by inherited or acquired immunodeficiencies or by failures of immunological mechanisms. Chapter 16 describes how the immune response can be manipulated in attempts to combat infectious diseases, transplant rejection, and cancer. This chapter includes a complete update of the immunotherapeutics and vaccine sections. Aspects of evolution, which were confined to the last chapter of previous editions, are now discussed throughout the book as the relevant topics are encountered.

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