INTRODUCTION TO IMMUNOLOGY Flashcards
A foreign substances that induces such an immune response?
Immunogen
Who’s english doctor in 1700s discovered the exposure to cowpox leads to smallpox immunity
Edward Jenner
Immunogen are macromolecules that are
capable of triggering an _______
Adaptive immune response
Practice of deliberately exposing an
individual to material from smallpox lesions was known as ________
Variolation
________ injecting a cellular material from an
organism which is less virulent
Vaccination
exposure to one agent produces protection against another agent is known as
Cross-Immunity
Attenuated chicken cholera
and anthrax vaccine
1880-1881: Pasteur
Process of attenuation of organisms based on Pasteur
Heat aging or Chemical mix
Therapeutic vaccination
1885: Louis Pasteur
1883-1905 : Elie Metchnikoff
Cellular theory of immunity: Phagocytosis
Humoral theory of Immunity
1890- Von Behring and Kitasata
Delayed type of immunity (Type 4)
1891: Robert Koch
1900: Erlich
Antibody formation theory
Immediate-hypersensitivity anaphylaxis (Type 1, 2, 3)
1902: Portier and Richet
Arthus Reaction of intermediate hypersensitivity
1903: Arthus
Type 3
Marrack-1938
Discovery of antigen-antibody binding
Inactivated dead viral vaccine for:
Intramuscular polio vaccine
Salk-1949
Attenuated live vaccine
Oral polio vaccine
Sabin 1949
Yellow fever vaccine
1951- Reed
old term for Major Histocompatibility Complex
Human Leukocyte Antigen
recognize a foreign substances if they are rejected or accepted (like organ transplant)
MHC-Major Histocompatibility Complex
Burnet: 1957
Clonal Selection Theory
Kohler: 1975
First monoclonal antibodies
Identification of antibody molecule
1972