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Immune - Journey into the system that keeps you alive

By Phillip Dettmer

Book information

Year
2021
ISBN
2021010071, 2021010072, 9780593241318, 9780593241332
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7248531 bytes)
Pages
\851
Time added
2021-11-15 09:39:33

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Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Part 1: Meet Your Immune System Chapter 1: What Is the Immune System? Chapter 2: What Is There to Defend? Chapter 3: What Are Your Cells? Chapter 4: The Empires and Kingdoms of the Immune System Part 2: Catastrophic Damage Chapter 5: Meet Your Enemies Chapter 6: The Desert Kingdom of the Skin Chapter 7: The Cut Chapter 8: The Soldiers of the Innate Immune System: Macrophages and Neutrophils Chapter 9: Inflammation: Playing with Fire Chapter 10: Naked, Blind, and Afraid: How Do Cells Know Where to Go? Chapter 11: Smelling the Building Blocks of Life Chapter 12: The Invisible Killer Army: The Complement System Chapter 13: Cell Intelligence: The Dendritic Cell Chapter 14: Superhighways and Megacities An Aside The Spleen and the Tonsils—Super Lymph Node Best Friends Chapter 15: The Arrival of the Superweapons Chapter 16: The Largest Library in the Universe Chapter 17: Cooking Tasty Receptor Recipes Chapter 18: The Murder University of the Thymus Chapter 19: Presenting Information on a Gold Platter: Antigen Presentation Chapter 20: Awakening the Adaptive Immune System: T Cells Chapter 21: Weapon Factories and Sniper Rifles: B Cells and Antibodies Chapter 22: The Dance of the T and the B Chapter 23: Antibodies An Aside: The Four Classes of Antibodies Part 3: Hostile Takeover Chapter 24: The Swamp Kingdom of the Mucosa Chapter 25: The Weird and Special Immune System of Your Gut Chapter 26: What Is a Virus? Chapter 27: The Immune System of Your Lungs Chapter 28: The Flu—the “Harmless” Virus You Don’t Respect Enough Chapter 29: Chemical Warfare: Interferons, Interfere! An Aside: The Difference Between the Flu and the Common Cold Chapter 30: The Window into the Soul of Cells Chapter 31: The Murder Specialists—Killer T Cells Chapter 32: Natural Killers Chapter 33: How a Viral Infection Is Eradicated An Aside: Why Don’t We Have Better Medication Against Viruses? Chapter 34: Shutting the Immune System Down Chapter 35: 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 Chapter 36: Vaccines and Artificial Immunization Part 4: Rebellion and Civil War Chapter 37: When Your Immune System Is Too Weak: Hiv and Aids Chapter 38: When the Immune System Is Too Aggressive: Allergies Chapter 39: Parasites and How Your Immune System Might Miss Them Chapter 40: Autoimmune Disease An Aside: Anergy Chapter 41: The Hygiene Hypothesis and Old Friends Chapter 42: How to Boost Your Immune System Chapter 43: Stress and the Immune System Chapter 44: Cancer and the Immune System An Aside: Smoking and the Immune System Chapter 45: The Coronavirus Pandemic A Final Word Sources Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright Title Page Dedication Contents Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you? Chapter 2: Renegade perception Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’ Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit Chapter 7: War on your mind Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it? Chapter 10: Human 2.0 Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult? Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko Postscript Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation Bibliography Index

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