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Current concepts in immunology

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The main function of the immune system is to protect the host from certain death due to numerous potential pathogens present in the environment. The development and maintenance of immunity is dependent on a complex and highly sophisticated defense organization functionally divided into the innate and adaptive immune systems.

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Acknowledgments

Dr. Susana A. Serrate-Sztein (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland) and Dr. Marcelo B. Sztein (University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland) contributed much of this chapter in the second edition, which was revised by the current author in the third, fourth, and fifth editions.

I would especially like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Richard S. Schulof, who co-authored this chapter in the second edition, but died in an accident during the preparation of the third edition.

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    Robert K. Oldham

  2. Hoag Cancer Center, Newport Beach, CA, USA

    Robert O. Dillman

  3. University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Robert O. Dillman

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Oldham, R.K. (2009). Current concepts in immunology. In: Oldham, R.K., Dillman, R.O. (eds) Principles of Cancer Biotherapy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2289-9_5

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