In Defense of Self How the Immune System Really Works in Managing Health and Disease

Name: In Defense of Self How the Immune System Really Works in Managing Health and Disease
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ISBN: 9780195311266

ISBN-10: 0195311264

ISBN-13: 9780195311266

Edition: 2007

Authors: William R. Clark

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We live in a sea of seething microbial predators, an infinity of invisible and invasive microorganisms capable of setting set up shop inside us and sending us to an early grave. The only thing keeping them out? The immune system. William Clark's In Defense of Self offers a refreshingly accessible tour of the immune system, putting in layman's terms essential information that has been for too long the exclusive province of trained specialists. Clark explains how the immune system works by using powerful genetic, chemical, and cellular weapons to protect us from the vast majority of disease-causing microbes-bacteria, viruses, molds, and parasites. Only those microbes our bodies need to help…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.12" wide x 0.12" long x 0.12" tall
Language: English




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