Courses tagged with "Department of Biology" (2)

Role of Phagocytes in Innate or Nonspecific Immunity. Types of immune responses: Innate and Adaptive. Humoral vs. Cell-Mediated. B Lymphocytes (B cells). Professional Antigen Presenting Cells (APC) and MHC II complexes. Helper T Cells. Cytotoxic T Cells. Review of B cells, CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells. Inflammatory Response. Role of Phagocytes in Innate or Nonspecific Immunity. Types of immune responses: Innate and Adaptive. Humoral vs. Cell-Mediated. B Lymphocytes (B cells). Professional Antigen Presenting Cells (APC) and MHC II complexes. Helper T Cells. Cytotoxic T Cells. Review of B cells, CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells. Inflammatory Response.

This sequence explores the elements of innate and acquired immune defense mecahnisms, the cells involved, their development and maturation, and biomolecular cellular communication mechanisms required to successfully fight off infection. Level: First Year Medical Students Unless otherwise noted this Work, Immunology, by The Regents of The University of Michigan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.