The Immune System and Disease
This pathway provides an in-depth look at viruses, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, and disruptions in the immune system. The pathway also provides vocabulary support for these topics, as well as opportunities for learners to self-assess their understanding by analyzing figures and answering questions.
Topics
- acellular
- active immunity
- adaptive immunity
- allergy
- antibody
- antigen
- antigen-presenting cell (APC)
- apoptosis
- attenuation
- autoantibody
- autoimmunity
- B cell
- capsid
- cell-mediated immune response
- complement system
- cytokine
- cytopathic
- cytotoxic T lymphocyte (TC)
- dendritic cell
- effector cell
- glycoprotein
- helper T lymphocyte (TH)
- humoral immune response
- hypersensitivity
- immune tolerance
- immunodeficiency
- inflammation
- innate
- immunity
- interferon
- lymph
- lymphocyte
- macrophage
- major histocompatibility class (MHC) I
- major
- histocompatibility class (MHC) II molecule
- mast cell
- memory cell
- monocyte
- natural killer (NK) cell
- neutrophil
- passive immunity
- primary immune response
- secondary immune response
- T cell
- vaccine
- viral envelope
- virion
- white blood cell