Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
Carver, Catherine A., author.
2017
QR181.7 .C37 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
Author Carver, Catherine A., author.
ISBN 9781472915115 (hardcover)
1472915119 (hardcover)
9781472915122 (paperback)
1472915127 (paperback)
Published London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.
Language English
Description 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number QR181.7 .C37 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 616.07/9
Summary "Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power of the system to fight disease. Do transplants ever reject their new bodies? What is pus? How can your body make more antibodies than there are stars in our galaxy? Why is cancer so hard for our immune system to fight? Why do flu outbreaks cause a spike in sleep disorders? Can we smell someone else's immune system, and does that help us subconsciously decide who we fall in love with? In this book, Catherine Carver answers all of these compelling questions, and many more besides." --Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
Series Bloomsbury sigma series.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Preface: Our hidden army
Full frontal immunity: the first line of defence
A cast of cut-throats: the killer cells that keep us safe
Chit-chatting chemicals: how your immune system yells
Transplants: designer vaginas to pig heart perfection
Outnumbered: how the immune system manages the body's resident bacteria
Immunological tango: sex and love
What a cute parasite: pregnancy and the immune system
A palace for parasites: worms and fleas and ticks! Oh my!
The adaptive assassins: killing everything from pink-eye to plague
Vaccines: a triumph of man's manipulation of the immune system
Allergies: everything you're itching to know
Auto-immunity: the science of friendly fire
Defenceless: the boy who lived in a bubble
Cancer: a deadly "spot the difference"
Killer bugs: be afraid, be very afraid
Clever drugs: immunological alchemy.

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