Dettmer, Philipp , author ,
Immune : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive / Philipp Dettmer. -- .-- First edition
Includes bibliographical references (page 317) and index.
Part 1. Meet your immune system What is the immune system? What is there to defend? What are your cells? The empires and kingdoms of the immune system Part 2. Catastrophic damage Meet your enemies The desert kingdom of the skin The cut The soldiers of the innate immune system: macrophages and neutrophils Inflammation: playing with fire Naked, blind, and afraid: how do cells know where to go? Smelling the building blocks of life The invisible killer army: the complement system Cell intelligence : the dendritic cell Superhighways and megacities The arrival of the superweapons The largest library in the universe Cooking tasty receptor recipes The murder university of the thymus Presenting information on a gold platter: antigen presentation Awakening the adaptive immune system: T cells Weapon factories and the sniper rifles : B cells and antibodies The dance of the T and the B Antibodies Part 3. Hostile takeover The swamp kingdom of the mucosa The weird and special immune system of your gut What is a virus? The flu--the "harmless" virus you don't respect enough Chemical warfare : interferons, interfere! The window into the soul of cells The murder specialists--killer T cells Natural killers How a viral infection is eradicated Shutting the immune system down Immune--how your immune system remembers an enemy forever Vaccines and artificial immunization Part 4. Rebellion and civil war When your immune system is too weak : HIV and AIDS When the immune system is too aggressive: allergies Parasites and how your immune system might miss them Autoimmune disease The hygiene hypothesis and old friends How to boost your immune system Stress and the immune system Cancer and the immune system The coronavirus pandemic
ISBN 9780593241318
Immune system
Immunology
616.079
Immune : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive / Philipp Dettmer. -- .-- First edition
Includes bibliographical references (page 317) and index.
Part 1. Meet your immune system What is the immune system? What is there to defend? What are your cells? The empires and kingdoms of the immune system Part 2. Catastrophic damage Meet your enemies The desert kingdom of the skin The cut The soldiers of the innate immune system: macrophages and neutrophils Inflammation: playing with fire Naked, blind, and afraid: how do cells know where to go? Smelling the building blocks of life The invisible killer army: the complement system Cell intelligence : the dendritic cell Superhighways and megacities The arrival of the superweapons The largest library in the universe Cooking tasty receptor recipes The murder university of the thymus Presenting information on a gold platter: antigen presentation Awakening the adaptive immune system: T cells Weapon factories and the sniper rifles : B cells and antibodies The dance of the T and the B Antibodies Part 3. Hostile takeover The swamp kingdom of the mucosa The weird and special immune system of your gut What is a virus? The flu--the "harmless" virus you don't respect enough Chemical warfare : interferons, interfere! The window into the soul of cells The murder specialists--killer T cells Natural killers How a viral infection is eradicated Shutting the immune system down Immune--how your immune system remembers an enemy forever Vaccines and artificial immunization Part 4. Rebellion and civil war When your immune system is too weak : HIV and AIDS When the immune system is too aggressive: allergies Parasites and how your immune system might miss them Autoimmune disease The hygiene hypothesis and old friends How to boost your immune system Stress and the immune system Cancer and the immune system The coronavirus pandemic
ISBN 9780593241318
Immune system
Immunology
616.079