HISTORY Flashcards
IMMUNOLOGY
- study of our IMMUNE SYSTEM
- Study of host’s reactions when foreign antigens are INTRODUCED to the body
Smallpox vaccine;
observed milkmaids
Edward Jenner (1798)
founder of immunity
attenuation of Rabies (1885)
Louis Pasteur (1868)
“vaccinia”
cowpox
*vacc = vacca = baka
“variola”
smallpox
Phagocytosis
cellular theory of immunity
Elli Metchnikoff (1880 - 1900)
complement fixation
Bordet and Gengou (1901)
Grabar and Williams (1952 - 1953)
immunoelectrophoresis in gel analysis
template theory of antibody production
Friedrich Brent/ Felix Haurowitz (1930)
Clonal Selection Theory
Niels Jerne/ Frank Burnet (1955 - 1957)
Histocompatibility Complex
Dausset/Rapoport (1958)
Milstein and Kohler (1973)
Hybridoma for the production of Monoclonal Antibodies
Chinese practice of inhaling powder (smallpox scabs)
- “exposing”
- some people develop the dse.
- also used in TB and Syphilis
Variolation
exact antibody binding site
Epitope
occurs when an antibody reacts with antigen that is structurally similar to the original antigen
- the Ag has the same binding site
Cross reactivity