Current Protocols in Immunology

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What's New in Current Protocols in Immunology
Supplement 97, April 2012

Unit 7.40 Isolation of Cells from the Feto-Maternal Interface
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Unit 14.29 Target-Induced Natural Killer Cell Loss as a Measure of NK Cell Responses
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Unit 18.18 Analysis of the Targeting Properties of Fc Chimeric Proteins and Antibodies in Mice In Vivo
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Unit 22F.10 Differentiation of Mast Cells from Embryonic Stem Cells
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Current Protocols in Immunology is a "best-practices" collection that provides comprehensive coverage of immunological methods from classic to the most cutting edge: the most sophisticated protocols in immunology today.

Updated every three months in all formats, CPI is constantly evolving to keep pace with the very latest discoveries and developments. A year of these updates is included in the initial CPI purchase price. That's 770 pages of new (43%) and revised (57%) content on average every year since the initial publication of the work in January 1991! Presently seven volumes in its looseleaf print version, CPI...

• covers the latest in antibody detection and preparation, molecular immunology, innate immunity, tumor immunology, engineering immune molecules and receptors, and more.
• includes a recently-added chapter on sources and proven methods for isolation and characterization of stem and progenitor cells, as well as animal models for analyses.
• offers valuable reference information in five extensive appendices, including commonly used reagents, equipment and techniques; and a full appendix devoted to the CD system of leukocyte surface molecules.

Edited by: John E. Coligan (Rockville, MD); Barbara Bierer (Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School); David H.Margulies (Bethesda, MD); Ethan M. Shevach (Bethesda, MD); Warren Strober (Bethesda, MD); Richard Coico (Temple University); Guest Editors: Patricia Brown (Frederick, Maryland); John C. Donovan (Wyeth Research); Past Editor: Ada Kruisbeek (Netherlands Research Institute)

Series Editor: Richard Coico (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)

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