HISTORY OF IMMUNOLOGY Flashcards
Host’s reactions when foreign substances are introduced in the body.
IMMUNOLOGY
Foreign substance that induces such an immune response.
ANTIGEN
Condition of being resistant to infection.
IMMUNITY
Who and what year recorded that individual who previously contracted the disease recovered and recognized their “immune” status?
THUCYDIDES 430 BC
Who and what year developed inhaling smallpox scabs in order to produce protection…?
CHINESE 1500S
who made the theory and what was the theory that if a healthy individual was exposed as a child or young adult, the effects of the disease would be minimized? they also inject small pox blister
VARIOLATION
Published his monumental work on vaccination
EDWARD JENNER
he discovered a remarkable relationship between exposure to cowpox and immunity to smallpox
EDWARD JENNER
father of immunology
LOUIS PASTEUR
the first attenuated vaccine discovered
CHICKEN CHOLERA
who applied the same principle to the prevention of rabies
LOUIS PASTEUR
who discovered phagocytosis?
ELIE METCHNIKOFF (late 1800s)
who proposed humoral theory of immunity? (2 people)
Von Behring, Kitasata
Non cellular elements in the blood were responsible for protection from microorganisms
HUMORAL IMMUNITY
what are the non-cellular elements?
ANTIBODIES and CYTOKINES
who demonstrated the cutaneous (delayed type) hypersensitivity?
KOCH
discovered the Complement resulted from his studies on experimental cholera infections in guinea pig “ALEXIN”
PFEIFFER
confirms the experiment of pfeiffer and describe immune hemolysis following the mixture of RBCs with specific antibody and alexin
BORDET
- he proposed complement
- antibody formation theory
- he was the first to use quantitative measurements of immune reactions
EHRLICH
formulated the complement fixation test (2 persons)
BORDET AND GENGOU