TY - BOOK AU - McDowell,Julie AU - Windelspecht,Michael TI - The lymphatic system SN - 0313324948 (alk. paper) U1 - 612.42 PY - 2004/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Greenwood Press KW - Lymphatics -- Popular works. KW - Système lymphatique -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation KW - Lymph Nodes. KW - Allergy and Immunology. KW - Lymphoma N1 - Includes bibliographical referencies (p. [165]-166) and index; The chemicals and cells of the lymphatic system -- The lymph system: an examination of the lymph nodes and lymphatic circulation in the body -- Secondary lymphatic organs: an examination of the lymphatic functions of the spleen, tonsils, adenoid, Peyer's patches, and appendix -- The immune response: cell-mediated and antibody-mediated responses -- The development of the lymphatic system -- History of discovery from the ancients to the nineteenth century -- The lymphatic system in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- Diseases of the lymphatic system: cancer -- Diseases of the lymphatic system: primary and secondary lymphatic organs -- Allergies and autoimmune responses -- The influence of nutrition on the immune response ER -