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Your Body's Heroes and Villains: Microexplorers : Learning Aobut Immune Cells : The Tiny Defenders That Safeguard Our Lives Against Nasty Bacteria and Viruses (Microexplorers Series) | Hardcover

by Patrick A. Baeuerle (Author), Norbert Landa (Author)

List Price:

$12.95

Binding:

Hardcover

Publisher:

Barron's Educational Series

Edition:

1st Edition

Page Count:

42 Pages

Publication Date:

January 01, 1998

Sales Rank:

1,572,938st

EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
Continuing Barron's Microexplorers series, readers watch as viruses of a common head cold invade a human body and as bacteria cells invade the body through a small wound. These are the body's villains, but they are fought off and finally overcome by hero antibodies-- produced by our bodies to protect us from harmful microscopic invaders. Full-color illustrations.

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