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Index
Cover
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
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