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_911388 _aDettmer, Philipp _eauthor |
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_aImmune _b: a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive _c/ Philipp Dettmer |
| 250 | _aFirst edition | ||
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_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2021] |
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_axviii, 341 pages : _bcolor illustrations |
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_2rdacontent _atext _astill image |
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_2rdamedia _aunmediated |
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_2rdacarrier _avolume |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (page 317) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aPart 1. Meet your immune system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhat is the immune system? | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhat is there to defend? | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhat are your cells? | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe empires and kingdoms of the immune system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aPart 2. Catastrophic damage | |
| 505 | 0 | _aMeet your enemies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe desert kingdom of the skin | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe cut | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe soldiers of the innate immune system: macrophages and neutrophils | |
| 505 | 0 | _aInflammation: playing with fire | |
| 505 | 0 | _aNaked, blind, and afraid: how do cells know where to go? | |
| 505 | 0 | _aSmelling the building blocks of life | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe invisible killer army: the complement system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aCell intelligence : the dendritic cell | |
| 505 | 0 | _aSuperhighways and megacities | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe arrival of the superweapons | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe largest library in the universe | |
| 505 | 0 | _aCooking tasty receptor recipes | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe murder university of the thymus | |
| 505 | 0 | _aPresenting information on a gold platter: antigen presentation | |
| 505 | 0 | _aAwakening the adaptive immune system: T cells | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWeapon factories and the sniper rifles : B cells and antibodies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe dance of the T and the B | |
| 505 | 0 | _aAntibodies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aPart 3. Hostile takeover | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe swamp kingdom of the mucosa | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe weird and special immune system of your gut | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhat is a virus? | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe flu--the "harmless" virus you don't respect enough | |
| 505 | 0 | _aChemical warfare : interferons, interfere! | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe window into the soul of cells | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe murder specialists--killer T cells | |
| 505 | 0 | _aNatural killers | |
| 505 | 0 | _aHow a viral infection is eradicated | |
| 505 | 0 | _aShutting the immune system down | |
| 505 | 0 | _aImmune--how your immune system remembers an enemy forever | |
| 505 | 0 | _aVaccines and artificial immunization | |
| 505 | 0 | _aPart 4. Rebellion and civil war | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhen your immune system is too weak : HIV and AIDS | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhen the immune system is too aggressive: allergies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aParasites and how your immune system might miss them | |
| 505 | 0 | _aAutoimmune disease | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe hygiene hypothesis and old friends | |
| 505 | 0 | _aHow to boost your immune system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aStress and the immune system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aCancer and the immune system | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe coronavirus pandemic | |
| 650 | _aImmune system | ||
| 650 | _aImmunology | ||
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_910999 _aScience |
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_2ddc _cBOOK |
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