TY  - CHAP
AU  - Raffaele Girlanda
AU  - Cal S. Matsumoto
AU  - Keith J. Melancon
AU  - Thomas M. Fishbein
ED  - Suman Kapur
ED  - Maristela Barbosa Portela
Y1  - 2012-02-24
PY  - 2012
T1  - Current Immunosuppression in Abdominal Organ Transplantation
N2  - A need for a book on immunology which primarily focuses on the needs of medical and clinical research students was recognized. This book, "Immunosuppression - Role in Health and Diseases" is relatively short and contains topics relevant to the understanding of human immune system and its role in health and diseases.  Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Therapeutic immunosuppression has applications in clinical medicine, ranging from prevention and treatment of organ/bone marrow transplant rejection, management of autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. It brings important developments both in the field of molecular mechanisms involved and active therapeutic approaches employed for immunosuppression in various human disease conditions. There was a need to bring this information together in a single volume, as much of the recent developments are dispersed throughout biomedical literature, largely in specialized journals.  This book will serve well the practicing physicians, surgeons and biomedical scientists as it provides an insight into various approaches to immunosuppression and reviews current developments in each area.
BT  - Immunosuppression
SP  - Ch. 16
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/26683
DO  - 10.5772/26683
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-16
ER  -