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Course 1 of a four course specialization called Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course's material. This is the first leg of a four-part journey through the defenses your body uses to keep you healthy. In this part, we hope to give you the vocabulary and concepts you need to interact with the medical community and provide them with a context that makes them memorable. Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function introduces students to the basic functions of the adaptive and innate immune systems. The early lectures survey cells, tissues, and organs using metaphors, cartoons, and models to improve understanding and retention. After describing the form, function, origin, and varieties of antibodies, subsequent lectures provide details on the mechanism of the generation of variation. The course provides animations of gene rearrangement and class switching and descriptions of affinity maturation correlated with detailed physical models of antibody structure. The final lecture reviews these concepts in an anatomical context. Testing employs multiple choice questions testing facts, concepts, and application of principles. Questions may refer to diagrams, drawings, and photographs used in the lecture and reproduced in the outline. What You’ll Learn: The difference between adaptive and innate immune systems, the characteristics of various pathogens that they protect you from, and the overall strategies employed in this protection. The detailed structure of antibodies and related immunoglobulin receptors, the characteristics and function of the different antibody classes, and the mechanism for producing both the recognition regions and stem regions.  Finally, how these structures are coded for in the DNA and expressed in the B cells....

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RW

Feb 2, 2021

Extremely helpful course for understanding the basis of what immunology is! I absolutely recommend it! and kudos to the instructor, she was very easy to understand and was able to keep me engaged!

ZF

Mar 27, 2020

I'm a Biology student, It's an amazing professor, excellent explanation with clarity the question, Highly recommend, If you have interest do join now, I'm going to the second course.

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Aug 31, 2019

it was great! that's it!

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Jun 1, 2020

Great refresher course.

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Jun 11, 2021

What a fun instructor!

By Menashe K

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Jan 31, 2021

Very well done course.

By NITHISH P U

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Aug 31, 2021

MUCH USEFULL COURSE

By Dr. P M B

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Nov 7, 2021

nice info Thank you

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Dec 8, 2020

i loved this course

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Sep 21, 2020

Its Kind of Cool!!!

By Liliana C P M

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Sep 8, 2019

Excelente formação.

By Muhammad S S

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Nov 3, 2023

excellent lectures

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Aug 6, 2020

I LOVE THIS COURSE

By Isabella E A

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Aug 6, 2019

excellent lectures

By KAMLESHWAREE G

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Jun 25, 2023

Very interesting.

By farideh s

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Aug 8, 2020

excellent teacher

By Emily P

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Oct 15, 2020

Excellent course

By Harini

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Jul 3, 2020

It's very useful

By Nishant S

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Mar 7, 2021

great knowledge

By VICTOR D R B

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Jan 24, 2021

excelente curso

By Manisha K

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May 9, 2020

its very good

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Feb 16, 2020

Great course!

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Sep 17, 2021

very helpful

By Swathi K

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Nov 11, 2020

Good classes

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Sep 6, 2020

great course

By AGRAHARI A R G

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Aug 21, 2020

Good Course.

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Jun 28, 2020

great course