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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"More than 40 million Americans suffer from allergies that range from wheat to dogs to dust. Some allergies cause a mild hay fever reaction, some cause anaphylactic shock, and some lead to longterm reactions such as chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, and even HIV infection. Gary Null offers an alternative solution to the drugs that most western doctors are quick to prescribe."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile cells he saw gathering around the thorns were nothing but a healing force in action? Metchnikoff's daring theory of immunity--that voracious cells he called phagocytes formed the first line of defense against invading bacteria--would eventually earn the...
4) Immunology
Publisher
Elsevier/Saunders
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
This textbook teaches the basic and clinical immunology concepts.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book, an international bestseller published in 1926, has influenced decades of researchers and doctors in the field of immunology and pathology. Paul de Kruif was himself a bacteriologist and pathologist, and he offers fascinating accounts of the first scientists to discover the microscopic world. These fundamental discoveries, including the first time a microbe was seen in a drop of rain water by the father of microbiology, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The author guides us on a wondrous journey through the past four billion years, from the formation of the first biomolecules to the complexities of the human mind, from microscopic chains of amino acids and nucleotides to cataclysmic events in distant galaxies, arriving at the compelling conclusion that the universe is strewn with "vital dust" capable of spawning life anywhere under the right conditions. Life and mind are not accidents; they are natural...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Immune System, Fourth Edition, emphasizes the human immune system and synthesizes immunological concepts into a coherent, up-to-date, and reader-friendly account of how the immune system works. Written for undergraduate, medical, veterinary, dental, and pharmacy students, it makes generous use of medical examples to illustrate points. The Fourth Edition has been extensively revised and updated. Innate immunity has undergone major revision to...