Intro and History - Immunology

Question 1

study of the molecules, cells, organs, and systems responsible for the recognition and disposal of foreign material

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Immunology

Question 2

study of the reaction of a host when foreign substances are introduced into the body

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Immunology

Question 3

Chinese developed a practice of inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs in order to produce protection against smallpox

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Variolation

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Smallpox vaccination (1798)

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Edward Jenner

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Live, attenuated chicken cholera and anthrax vaccines (1880)

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Louis Pasteur

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cellular theory of immunity through phagocytosis (1888)

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Ellie Mtchnikoff

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discovery of complement (1894)

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Jules Bordet

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discovery of precipitins (1897)

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Robert Kaus

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serum antitoxins (1901)

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Emil Von Behring

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cellular immunity in tuberculosis (1905)

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Robert Koch

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anaphylaxis (1913)

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Charles Richet

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1984

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discovery of T cell receptor gene

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structure of antibodies (1972)

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Gerald Edelman, Rodney Porter

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Nobel Prize Award for his 1978 discovery of antibody diversity (1987)

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Susumu Tonegawa

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HIV (2008)

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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier

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phagocytosis (1862)

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Haeckel

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Therapeutic vaccination first report of live “attenuated” vaccine for rabies (1885)

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Pasteur

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antibody formation theory (1900)

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Koch

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Immediate-hypersensitivity anaphylaxis (1902)

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Portier, Richet

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development of polio vaccine (1949)

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Salk, Sabin