Immune : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive
Record details
- ISBN: 0593241312 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780593241318 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 341 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 317) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- 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 (An aside: The spleen and the tonsils, super-lymph node best friends) ; The arrival of the superweapons ; The largest library in the universe ; Cooking tasty receptor recipes ; The murder university in 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 (An aside: The four classes of 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 immune system of your lungs ; The flu--the "harmless" virus you don't respect enough ; Chemical warfare: interferons, interfere! (An aside: The difference between the flu and the common cold) ; The window into the soul of cells ; The murder specialists--killer T cells ; Natural killers ; How a viral infection is eradicated (An aside: Why don't we have better medication against viruses?) ; Shutting the immune system down ; Immune--how your immune system remembers an enemy forever (An aside: What doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger: measles and memory cells) ; 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 (An aside: Anergy) ; The hygiene hypothesis and old friends ; How to boost your immune system ; Stress and the immune system ; Cancer and the immune system (An aside: Smoking and immune system) ; The coronavirus pandemic -- A final word. |
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Subject: | Immunology Immune system |
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