Immune : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive / Philipp Dettmer
By: Dettmer, Philipp [author].
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BookPublisher: New York : Random House, [2021]Edition: First edition.Description: xviii, 341 pages : color illustrations.Content type: text, still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593241318.Subject(s): Immune system | Immunology | Science
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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
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