TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dettmer,Philipp
TI  - Immune: : a journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive
SN  - 9780593241318
U1  - 616.079 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Immune system
KW  - Immunology
N1  - 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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