Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
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Publisher
London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Sigma, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2019/0534
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Language
English
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Physical content
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 th...
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Publisher
London ; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Sigma, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Series
Date Published
2017.
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Scope and Contents
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...
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Full title
Immune : how your body defends and protects you / Catherine Carver.
Portion of title
How your body defends and protects you
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Bloomsbury Sigma series
Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-295) and index.
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Date Copyright
©2017
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Call Numbers
G 2019/0534
Record Identifier
74VKV0KlNjGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0KlNjGO
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ISBN
9781472915115
DDC
616.079
MMS ID
991024224318102626
