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Immune system
The Immune System Explained I – Bacteria Infection
Immune System, Part 1: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #45
How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce

Gut microbiome
Immunology in the Gut Mucosa

Bone Marrow
How bones make blood - Melody Smith

Lymph Node
Lymphatic System: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #44

Lungs
Immunology of the Lung

Skin
Immunology in the skin

Articles

Immune system (Brodin and Davis 2017; Simon, Hollander, and McMichael 2015; Paludan et al. 2021; Rankin and Artis 2018)

Lungs (Gopallawa et al. 2023)

Thymus (Geenen 2017; Miller 2011)

Glia (Greenhalgh, David, and Bennett 2020; Godinho-Silva, Cardoso, and Veiga-Fernandes 2019)

Lymph Nodes (Willard-Mack 2006)

Bone Marrow (Guder et al. 2020; Mercier, Ragu, and Scadden 2012; Cooper 2011)

Skin (Cioce et al. 2024; Guttman-Yassky, Zhou, and Krueger 2019; Zhang et al. 2022)

Spleen (Lewis, Williams, and Eisenbarth 2019)

Gut (Yu, Agirman, and Hsiao 2022)

Tonsils (Arambula, Brown, and Neff 2021)

Mucus, Saliva and Tears (Li, Jin, and Chen 2020)

Books

(Murphy et al. 2022; Punt et al. 2019; Abbas et al. 2024; Dettmer 2021)

Abbas, Abul K., Andrew H. Lichtman, Shiv Pillai, and David L. Baker. 2024. Basic Immunology: Functions and Disorders of the Immune System. 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.

Arambula, Alexandra, Jason R. Brown, and Laura Neff. 2021. ‘Anatomy and Physiology of the Palatine Tonsils, Adenoids, and Lingual Tonsils’. World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 7, no. 3 (July): 155–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wjorl.2021.04.003 .

Brodin, Petter, and Mark M. Davis. 2017. ‘Human Immune System Variation’. Nature Reviews Immunology 17, no. 1 (January): 21–29. https://doi.org/10.1038/nri.2016.125 .

Cioce, Angela, Andrea Cavani, Caterina Cattani, and Fernanda Scopelliti. 2024. ‘Role of the Skin Immune System in Wound Healing’. Cells 13, no. 7 (April): 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13070624 .

Cooper, Barry. 2011. ‘The Origins of Bone Marrow as the Seedbed of Our Blood: From Antiquity to the Time of Osler’. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 24, no. 2 (April): 115–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08998280.2011.11928697 .

Dettmer, Philipp. 2021. Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive. First edition. New York: Random House.

Geenen, Vincent. 2017. ‘Histoire du thymus: D’un organe vestigial à la programmation de la tolérance immunitaire’. médecine/sciences 33, no. 6–7 (June): 653–63. https://doi.org/10.1051/medsci/20173306024 .

Godinho-Silva, Cristina, Filipa Cardoso, and Henrique Veiga-Fernandes. 2019. ‘Neuro–Immune Cell Units: A New Paradigm in Physiology’. Annual Review of Immunology 37, no. 1 (April): 19–46. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-immunol-042718-041812 .

Gopallawa, Indiwari, Ruchika Dehinwal, Vaibhav Bhatia, Vikramsingh Gujar, and Narendra Chirmule. 2023. ‘A Four-Part Guide to Lung Immunology: Invasion, Inflammation, Immunity, and Intervention’. Frontiers in Immunology 14, no. March (March): 1119564. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1119564 .

Greenhalgh, Andrew D., Sam David, and F. Chris Bennett. 2020. ‘Immune Cell Regulation of Glia during CNS Injury and Disease’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21, no. 3 (March): 139–52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-020-0263-9.

Guder, Christian, Sascha Gravius, Christof Burger, Dieter C. Wirtz, and Frank A. Schildberg. 2020. ‘Osteoimmunology: A Current Update of the Interplay Between Bone and the Immune System’. Frontiers in Immunology 11, no. January (January): 58. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.00058.

Guttman-Yassky, Emma, Lisa Zhou, and James G. Krueger. 2019. ‘The Skin as an Immune Organ: Tolerance versus Effector Responses and Applications to Food Allergy and Hypersensitivity Reactions’. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 144, no. 2 (August): 362–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2019.03.021.

Lewis, Steven M., Adam Williams, and Stephanie C. Eisenbarth. 2019. ‘Structure and Function of the Immune System in the Spleen’. Science Immunology 4, no. 33 (March): eaau6085. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aau6085.

Li, Yue, Liang Jin, and Tongxin Chen. 2020. ‘The Effects of Secretory IgA in the Mucosal Immune System’. BioMed Research International 2020, no. January (January): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2032057.

Mercier, Francois E., Christine Ragu, and David T. Scadden. 2012. ‘The Bone Marrow at the Crossroads of Blood and Immunity’. Nature Reviews Immunology 12, no. 1 (January): 49–60. https://doi.org/10.1038/nri3132.

Miller, Jacques F. A. P. 2011. ‘The Golden Anniversary of the Thymus’. Nature Reviews Immunology 11, no. 7 (July): 489–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/nri2993.

Murphy, Kenneth, Casey Weaver, Leslie Berg, and Charles Janeway. 2022. Janeway’s Immunobiology. 10th edition. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company.

Paludan, Søren R., Thomas Pradeu, Seth L. Masters, and Trine H. Mogensen. 2021. ‘Constitutive Immune Mechanisms: Mediators of Host Defence and Immune Regulation’. Nature Reviews Immunology 21, no. 3 (March): 137–50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-0391-5.

Punt, Jenni, Sharon A. Stranford, Patricia P. Jones, Judith Owen, and Janis Kuby. 2019. Kuby Immunology. Eighth edition, North American edition. New York, NY: Macmillan Education.

Rankin, Lucille C., and David Artis. 2018. ‘Beyond Host Defense: Emerging Functions of the Immune System in Regulating Complex Tissue Physiology’. Cell 173, no. 3 (April): 554–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.013.

Simon, A. Katharina, Georg A. Hollander, and Andrew McMichael. 2015. ‘Evolution of the Immune System in Humans from Infancy to Old Age’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1821 (December): 20143085. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.3085.

Willard-Mack, Cynthia L. 2006. ‘Normal Structure, Function, and Histology of Lymph Nodes’. Toxicologic Pathology 34, no. 5 (August): 409–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01926230600867727.

Yu, Lewis W., Gulistan Agirman, and Elaine Y. Hsiao. 2022. ‘The Gut Microbiome as a Regulator of the Neuroimmune Landscape’. Annual Review of Immunology 40, no. 1 (April): 143–67. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-immunol-101320-014237.

Zhang, Chenlu, Geil R. Merana, Tamia Harris-Tryon, and Tiffany C. Scharschmidt. 2022. ‘Skin Immunity: Dissecting the Complex Biology of Our Body’s Outer Barrier’. Mucosal Immunology 15, no. 4 (April): 551–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41385-022-00505-y.