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Immune A journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive 1st Edition by Philipp Dettmer ISBN 9780593241332 0593241339

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Author(s): Philipp Dettmer

Edition: First edition.

File Details: EPUB, 28.10 MB

Year: 2021

Language: english

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ISBN 13: 9780593241332
Author: Philipp Dettmer

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell “Through wonderful analogies and a genius for clarifying complex ideas, Immune is a truly brilliant introduction to the human body’s vast system for fighting infections and other threats.”—John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars You wake up and feel a tickle in your throat. Your head hurts. You’re mildly annoyed as you get the kids ready for school and dress for work yourself. Meanwhile, an epic war is being fought, just below your skin. Millions are fighting and dying for you to be able to complain as you head out the door. But most of us never really stop to ask: What even is our immune system? Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days. In Immune, Philipp Dettmer, the brains behind the most popular science channel on YouTube, takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses. There is a constant battle of staggering scale raging within us, full of stories of invasion, strategy, defeat, and noble self-sacrifice. In fact, in the time you’ve been reading this, your immune system has probably identified and eradicated a cancer cell that started to grow in your body. Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer, as Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself. Enlivened by engaging full-color graphics and immersive descriptions, Immune turns one of the most intricate, interconnected, and confusing subjects—immunology—into a gripping adventure through an astonishing alien landscape. Immune is a vital and remarkably fun crash course in what is arguably, and increasingly, the most important system in the body.

Immune A journey into the mysterious system that keeps you alive 1st Edition Table of contents:

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

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