Immunochemistry

de Carel J. Van Oss, Marc Hubert Victor van Regenmortel

This single-source reference/text offers comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the chemical and physicochemical aspects of immunological interactions as well as the molecules and moieties involved in these interactions - providing a well-focused and organized study of immunochemistry. Highlighting the chemical principles at work in the most current immunological techniques, Immunochemistry supplies - for the first time in a book of this kind - an in-depth treatment of the Ag-Ab interaction, including attraction at a distance between epitope and paratope ... explains the methodology of immunochemical analysis that forms the basis for clinical and immunological diagnoses ... furnishes an introduction to the difficult but promising therapeutic approach of the magic bullet ... examines immunoglobulins, monoclonal antibodies, T-cell receptors, Fc receptors, and lectins ... explores the immunochemistry of antigens and haptens ... discusses the fundamentals of antigen-antibody interactions as well as in vivo and in vitro responses ... and much more.