MBIO 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Humoral Immunity, Cell-Mediated Immunity, Antigen Processing

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MBIO 1220
• Professor: Silvia Cardona

Document Summary

This unit describes the adaptive immune response, which is a complex strategy of clearing infection. The adaptive immune response is constantly evolving as you are exposed to more and more antigens (molecules that trigger an immune response). Your textbook provides considerable detail on this topic, which may be particularly intimidating to those who are being introduced to these concepts for the first time. Read the summaries provided with the reading lists carefully, and do not worry about details in the text that are not emphasized in your course material. Unit activities: read the following sections in chapter 15 of the textbook. The summaries and/or guidelines provided with the reading list will direct you to the examinable parts of each textbook section: section 15. 1 overview of the adaptive immune response. There are two branches to the adaptive immune response: humoral immunity (also known as the antibody-mediated response) and cellular immunity (also known as the cell-mediated response).