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Immunology:
Innate & Acquired Immunity
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Immunology Lecture Materials
These
are the Immunology: Innate & Acquired Lecture materials of the Virtual Microbiology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual
college microbiology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in
biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.
The Immunology Lecture materials include:
- a list of learning objectives
- a PowerPoint lecture
- a homework assignment
- "class note" articles
- practice test questions
- review questions
- links to additional educational resources
These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VMC Immunology Lecture PowerPoint:
- Describe microbial antagonism. With respect to this, how do normal flora benefit you?
- Understand the first line of immune defense against pathogens; its physical components and chemical components.
- What is the role of mucus in helping protect us from infection?
- Understand how leukocytes, nonspecific chemical defenses, inflammation and fever contribute to our second line of defense against pathogens.
- Describe the three types of formed elements.
- List the different types of leukocytes and their functions.
- Know the three types of cells that kill extra-cellularly.
- Be able to list and describe the nonspecific chemical defenses of the second line of immune defense.
- Understand the steps of the inflammatory response.
- Which leukocytes are part of nonspecific (1st & 2nd line) immune function? Which are part of specific immune function?
- Understand what antigens are, and be able to describe the different types.
- Be able to describe what an epitope is. What is another term for epitope?
- Understand what antibodies are, what they can do, and which cell type produces them.
- What are antigen presenting cells?
- Know the function and components of the lymphoid system to the level that we discussed in lecture/PPT.
- Know the different types of lymphocytes and their functions.
- What are B cells? Name the types and describe what they do.
- What are T cells? Name the types and describe what they do.
- What is the humoral immune response? Which cells and chemicals are involved?
- What is the difference between specific and nonspecific immune function? Which aspects of immune function are nonspecific and which are specific?
IMMUNOLOGY LECTURE POWERPOINT
All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Microbiology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.
HELPFUL TIPS: Some of the PowerPoint presentations are large files and may take a few moments to download, depending on the speed of your internet connection. If you are printing a hard copy of the PowerPoint, you can save paper by selecting Handouts (rather than Slides) in the "Print What:" drop down menu of the PPT print screen. Then you can choose the number of slides you want to have on each printed page. If the printed PPT presentation is to be used as student notes, it is best to choose handouts with 2 or 3 slides per page.
IMMUNOLOGY HOMEWORK
Word document of a homework assignment given to students at the end of lecture. This tool helps the students review the main messages of the Immunology Lectures while allowing the instructor to assess the class' understanding of the material.
IMMUNOLOGY CLASS NOTES
Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this lecture, kind of like really good class notes.
- What Are Normal Flora? Resident, Transient & Opportunistic Microbes
IMMUNOLOGY PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS
Practice test questions designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture:
IMMUNOLOGY REVIEW QUESTIONS
Questions designed to help you review the material in the Immunology: Innate & Acquired Lecture.
MORE IMMUNOLOGY LINKS
- Phagocytosis animation and quiz by McGraw-Hill.
- Immune System “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” game.
- Immune System animation and quiz by McGraw-Hill.
- Cellular Immune Response & Humoral Immune Response narrated animation and quiz from W. H. Freeman.
- Immune System Defender, online game from the Nobel Prize website. Use your force of white blood cells to destroy invading bacteria, before they overpopulate and cause disease.
- Immune System Game, a collection of online fun and educational games about immunology.
- Assassin - song by John Mayer.
- You Gotta Have Skin - sung by John Lithgow
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You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
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Page last updated 5/2012
