PHGY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Basophil, Phagocytosis, Macrophage
5 Oct 2017
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Bubble boy: lived for the first 12 years of his life in a bubble. Skid severe combined immune deficiency people that have abnormal bone marrow, lymph nodes and thymus. There are no body systems that avoid immune intervention. 40 million people died from aids many families were affected if the mother has aids, it would likely get to their new born infant. Aids only kills certain cells, but they are the essential cells of the immune system. Organs of the immune system scattered throughout the body. Primary organs: stem cells from the yolk sac and fetal liver, bone marrow, thymus gland. Secondary organs: lymph nodes, spleen, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (malt) First observation in immunology: smallpox was a dreadful infectious disease that, for many centuries, killed one out of ten people. Cowpox (cows that suffer from pox - cowpox) people exposed to cowpox are immune from smallpox jenner began to vaccinate people with cowpox to remove the possibility of smallpox.
