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Immunology and Infection

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By: Anna Lancaster
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Decks in this class (19)

Lecture 1 - Infectious disease
What are koch s postulates for pr...,
What is the type 3 secretion system,
What is vibrio cholera
5  cards
Lecture 2 - Genotype and Phenotype
Why do bacteria not express all t...,
What is an operon,
What is a regulon
5  cards
Lecture 3 - Viruses
What are the key features of viruses,
Describe the retrovirus life cycle,
Describe ss rna life cycle
7  cards
Lecture 4 - Antigenic variation
What are the main survival strate...,
Describe the envelope structure o...,
Describe influenza and antigenic ...
3  cards
Lecture 5 - Pathogen lifecycle
Why do we think we can make vacci...,
What are the obstacles to trypano...,
What are the helminth parasites
3  cards
Lecture 6 - The immune system
What is commensalism,
What is mutualism,
What is parasitism
14  cards
Lecture 7 - Immune tissues
What is haematopoeisis,
What is the role of the thymus,
What are secondary lymphoid tissues
8  cards
Lecture 8 - Innate immunity - the cells
What is commensal symbiosis,
What is parasitic symbiosis,
What is mutualist symbiosis
23  cards
Lecture 9 - Innate immunity - molecules
Why is inflammation important,
What is the complement system,
What is the complement activation...
18  cards
Lecture 10 - Immune Cell Migration
What are chemokines,
Describe how chemokine chemotaxis...
2  cards
Lecture 11 - Development of the B cell repertoire
What are the principles of clonal...,
Describe b cell development in th...,
Describe the role of b cells
12  cards
Lecture 12 - MHC : Antigen Processing and Presentation
What is the mhc,
Describe mhc tcr interaction,
Describe mhc polygeny
4  cards
Lecture 13 - Development of the T cell repertoire
Describe t cell receptors,
What are the types of t cell rece...,
Describe abt cell receptor intera...
13  cards
Lecture 14 - The concept of T cell activation
What is a naive t cell,
What is a primed t cell,
What is an activated effector t cell
18  cards
Lecture 15 : CD4 T cell subsets part 1, Th1 + Th2 cells
What are regulatory t cells
1  cards
Lecture 16 - CD4 T cell subsets (2 of 2) Th17 + regulatory T cells
What kind of pathogens do th1 cel...,
What kind of pathogens do th2 cel...,
What is the role of th17 cells
12  cards
Lecture 17 - CD8+ T cells
What are the properties of ctl ki...,
What makes ctls such efficient ki...,
Describe the co operative cd4 apc...
5  cards
Lecture 18 - Concepts of B cell activation and Response to Infection
Describe the two forms in which a...,
Describe b cell signalling,
How is the b cell shut down
7  cards
Lecture 19 - Microbial Evasion of the Immune System
Give examples of how pathogens ob...,
Describe how hiv infects cells,
Describe how helminths manipulate...
4  cards

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