Preface -- Color Plates -- PART I: INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY. 1. Immunology -- (Cindy Takeuchi and Paul Wentworth) 2. Superantigens -- (Matthew D. Baker and K. Ravi Acharya) 3. Antigen Presenting Cells (APCs). (Harald Kropshofer and Anne B. Vogt) 4. Cell Mediated Immune Defence -- (Martin F. Bachmann and Thomas M. Kundig) 5. Immunologic Memory -- (Alexander Ploss and Eric G. Pamer) PART II: SIGNALING IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. 6. Molecular Mediators: Cytokines (Jean-Marc Cavaillon) 7. Interleukins -- (Anthony Meager) 8. Viral Inhibitors and Immune Response Mediators: The Interferons -- (Anthony Meager) 9. Signaling Through JAKs and STATs: Interferons Lead the Way -- (Christian Schindler and Jessica Melillo) PART III: TECHNIQUES. 10. Flow Cytometry -- (Michael G. Ormerod) 11. Immunoassays -- (James P. Gosling) 12. Genetic Engineering of Antibody Molecules -- (Manuel L. Penichet and Sherie L, Morrison) PART IV: IMMUNOLOGICAL DISORDERS. 13. Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity -- (Kenneth Michael Pollard) 14. Synovial Mast Cells in Inflammatory Arthritis -- (Theoharis C. Theoharides) 15. Molecular and Cell Biology of AIDS/HIV. (Andrew M.L. Lever) Index.