• The Immunology of the Cat makes available the first single-source, comprehensive review of the feline immune system, reporting on all immunologic aspects of diseases of the cat and its relatives and relating recent basic science to important clinical issues. The book opens with the evolution, domestication, and development of the cat then provides detailed information on immunity to infectious diseases, feline allergic diseases, the top feline autoimmune diseases, and feline immunodeficiencies. Content examines feline vaccines, hypersensitivity, cancer, nutrition, and the aged cat. Professionals in veterinary research and practice will appreciate complete information on all aspects of feline immunology in one essential resource.

    Key features

    • Introduces the first comprehensive review of feline immunology
    • Links recent basic science to important clinical issues
    • Provides detailed and current information in one resource

    Readership

    Veterinary clinical researchers, with obvious application to small-animal veterinarians, especially feline specialists

  • 1. The Evolution and Domestication of the Cat

    2. Feline Ontogeny, Reproduction, and Lactation

    3. Feline Innate Immunity

    4. Feline Hematology

    5. Feline Sickness

    6. Feline Cytokines

    7. Feline Dendritic Cells and Macrophages

    8. The Feline Lymphoid Organs

    9. The Feline Major Histocompatibility Complex

    10. Feline Innate Lymphoid Cell

    11. B cells and Immunoglobulins

    12. Feline T cells and cell-mediated Immunity

    13. Immunity on Feline Body Surfaces

    14. The Feline Surface Microbiota and Dysbiosis

    15. Immunity to Selected Feline Infectious Diseases

    16. Feline Vaccines

    17. Immunity to Parasitic Diseases in the Cat

    18. Immediate Hypersensitivity in Cats

    19. Feline Hypersensitivity Diseases, Local Immune Complex Lesions

    20. Feline Allografts and Rejection

    21. Feline Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

    22. Selected Feline Organ-specific Autoimmune Diseases

    23. Selected Feline Inflammatory Diseases

    24. Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiencies in the Cat

    25. Feline Nutrition and Immunity

    26. Immunity in the Geriatric Cat

  • Ian Tizard, BVMS, BSc, PhD, DSc (Hons), DACVM

    Is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists and a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, The Texas Veterinary Medical Center at Texas A &M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. Dr. Tizard earned his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1965. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Pathology and a PhD in Immunology. After completing his studies, Dr. Tizard became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, where he remained on as a professor until 1982 when he moved to TAMU. Dr. Tizard wrote the first standardized textbook on Veterinary Immunology in 1977. This text, now in its 10th edition, is used worldwide, and has played a major role in establishing Immunology among the key disciplines of Veterinary Science.

    Affiliations and expertise

    Texas A &M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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