The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Pandemics

by Louis J Catania and Louis J. Catania

The Paradox of the Immune System: Protection, Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease and Beyond provides a provocative approach to immunology as a "double-edged sword." While it is our greatest protector, it is also the cause of chronic inflammation that leads to autoimmune disease, cancer and infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the basic science of immunology and its intimate genetic associations, biomedical hypotheses asserting immunology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323951872
• ISBN13: 9780323951876
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 284 Pages