Introduction to The Immune System
This text provides a brief introduction to innate immune response, adaptive immune response, antibodies, and disruptions in the immune system.
Topics
- adaptive immunity
- affinity
- allergy
- antibody
- antigen
- antigen-presenting cell
- APC
- autoantibody
- autoimmune response
- autoimmunity
- avidity
- B cell
- basophil
- cell-mediated immune response
- clonal selection
- complement system
- cross reactivity
- cytokine
- cytotoxic T lymphocyte
- CTL
- dendritic cell
- effector cell
- eosinophil
- epitope
- granzyme
- helper T lymphocyte
- TH
- host
- humoral immune response
- hypersensitivities
- immune tolerance
- immunodeficiency
- inflammation
- innate immunity
- interferon
- lymph
- lymphocyte
- macrophage
- major histocompatibility class
- MHC I/II molecule
- mast cell
- memory cell
- monocyte
- mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
- MALT
- natural killer
- NK cell
- neutrophil
- opsonization
- passive immunity
- pathogen
- pathogen-associated molecular pattern
- PAMP
- pattern recognition receptor
- PRR
- perforin
- plasma cell
- regulatory T
- Treg cell
- T cell
- adaptive immune response
- adaptive immune system
- allergies
- antibody class
- antibody function
- antibody structure
- cross-reactivity
- cytokine release
- ELISA
- enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
- helper T cell
- hypersensitivity
- immune response
- immune system
- innate immune response
- innate immune system
- major histocompatability class I molecule
- major histocompatability class II molecule
- MHC
- MHC I
- MHC II
- natural killer cell
- NK
- pathogen recognition
- regulatory T cell
- immunity
- antibodies