Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Overview of the immune system- Cells and organs of the immune system.
Innate and adaptive immunity.
- Innate immunity & complement.
- Hematopoiesis.
- VDJ joining: T and B cells.
- B cell maturation & class switching.
- Somatic hypermutation.
- Dendritic cells.
- MHC: T cell-antigen presenting cell: interactions.
- T-B cells interactions.
- Chemokines & Adhesion molecules.
- Signal transduction in immune cells.
- T cell subsets, Regulatory T cells, Th17 cells.
- Clonal selection, central tolerance.
- Peripheral regulation.
- Mostly, current research reports and reviews will be used as study
materials. Recent articles from Annual Review of Immunology, Current
Opinion in Immunology, Nature Immunology etc. will be consulted.
- K. M. Murphy, P. Travers and M. Walport, Janeway's
Immunobiology, 7th Edn., Garland Science (2008).
- T. J. Kindt, R. A. Goldsby and B. A. Osborne, Kuby Immunology,
6th Edn., W.H. Freeman (2006).
