Exam 1 Flashcards
What happened in 430 BCE wit thucydides?
eyewitness account of plaque to promote survival upon future disease occurences
What happened in the 10th century with rhazes?
use of humor theory to distinguish different contagious diseases
What happened in 1000 Ad in china?
immunization practiced using crusts of small pox leasions
What happened in 1546 with Girolamo Francastoro?
proposed that epidemics are caused by transferal of seed-like entities
What happened in 11th Century avicenna?
refinement of the theory of acquired immunity
What happend in 1720 great britain?
inoculation using small pox to prevent smallpox infection
What happened in 1796 with Edward Jenner?
inoculation with cowpox to prevent smallpox infection
What happened in 1862 with ernst haeckel?
recognition of mast cell
What happened in 1880 with louis pasteur and emile roux?
vaccination of chickens against cholera using an attenuated culture of vibrio cholerae
What happened in 1884 with Ilya Machnikov?
cellular theory of immunity
What happened in 1890 with Emil von Behring and Shibassaburo Kitasato?
theory of humoral immunity
What happened in 1891 with robert koch?
discovery of delayed- type hypersensitivity
What happened in 1894 with jules bordet?
discovery of the complement system
What happened in 1897 with paul ehrlich?
theory of antibody formation
What happned in 1901 with Karl Landsteiner?
discovery of A, b, O blood groups
What happened in 1906 with Clemens von Pirquet
term allergy coined
What happened in 1932 with alexander gienny?
discovery of adjuvants
What happened in 1944 with Peter Medawar and Thomas Gibsom?
discovery of the immunological basis of transplantation immunology
What happened in 1948 with astrid fagraeus?
discovery of antibody production occurring in B cells
What happened in 1958 with frank McFarlane burnet?
development of the clonal selection theory
What happened in 1959-1962 with Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter?
determination of the structure of antibodies
What happened in 1961-1962 with Jacques Miller?
discovery of the thymus involvement in cellular immunity
What happened in 1974 with Rolf Zinkernagel and Peter Doherty
demonstration of MHC restriction of T cells in their antigen response
What happened in 1976 with Susumu Tonegawa
ID of somatic recombination of immunoglobulin genes