Chapters

17.0 Learning aims, what you already should know, Introduction, Delving deeper

• Learning aims
  
• What you already should know
  
• Introduction
• Delving deeper

17.1 Blood

• Introduction
  
• Hematopoiesis
• Erythropoiesis
  • Hemoglobin
• Physiology of the prenatal oxygen supply
• Myelopoiesis
• Lymphopoiesis
• Blood clotting

17.2 Lymphatic tissue

• Introduction
  
• Primary lymphatic organs
  • Bone marrow
  • Thymus
• Secondary lymphatic organs
  • Lymph follicles of the mucous membranes
  • Lymph nodes
  • White pulp of the spleen

17.3 Achieving immunocompetence

• Introduction
  
• Cell-mediated immunity
• Humoral immunity
• Development of the immunologic tolerance
  • Positive selection
  • Negative selection

17.4 Pathology

• Introduction
  
• Hemoglobinopathies
  • Quantitative hemoglobinopathies (thalassemias)
  • Structural hemoglobinopathies (sickle cell syndrome)
• Myelopathies
  • Panmyelopathies
• Blood clotting disorders
  • Thrombocytopenias
  • Hereditary coagulopathies
• Disorders of the lymph vessels
• Immunologic disorders
  • Catch22
  • Myasthenia gravis

17.5 Quiz

• Test your knowledge

17.6 Brief summary

• Summarized

17.7 Bibliography

• References