Help with basic understanding

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know of a good basic biology book that would help people

(me!) trying to understand the immune system and therefore psc and

other autoimmune diseases? I have been trying to follow a lot of the

technical language and get some of it but feel if my basic

understanding were better I would be able to build more quickly on

what I know and can comprehend. I'm thinking pretty basic, like an

introductory college course book. Thanks!

[Guest guest]

Hi ;

These articles provide a pretty good summary to the immune system:

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/final/immun/immun.htm

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec16/ch183/ch183a.html

You can also browse this online book:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/

For instance, this is the section on T helper cells in that book, and

includes recent work on Th17 cells:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Th1_Th2.html

Best regards,

Dave R.

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> Does anyone know of a good basic biology book that would help people

> (me!) trying to understand the immune system and therefore psc and

> other autoimmune diseases? I have been trying to follow a lot of

the

> technical language and get some of it but feel if my basic

> understanding were better I would be able to build more quickly on

> what I know and can comprehend. I'm thinking pretty basic, like an

> introductory college course book. Thanks!

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, . Those links are helping tremendously.

[Guest guest]

I don't have a book idea for you, but www.fpnotebook.com has a lot of

good info.