[MIMM 214] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (132 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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Introducing the major players: tissues, cells, molecules. Tissues of the immune system: collection of organs, tissues, cells, and molecules that coordinately work to protect from infection, key components, bone marrow, thymus. Sits right above the heart and is important in the development/maturation of t cells: lymphatics, lymph nodes. Immune cells travel through the blood and lymphatics in the body and occupy different tissues over time. Immune cells derive from progenitors in the bone marrow and where tissues. B cell large of t of cell point. Immune cells congregate in lymphoid tissues: primary (central) lymphoid organs, this is where lymphocytes are generated mature: Thymus: secondary (peripheral) lymphoid organs, this is where lymphocytes are activated; immune response is generated/activated. Innate immunity: macrophage, dendritic cell, adaptive immunity, cd4 t cell, cd8 t cell, b cell, differentiated plasma. Nk cells release lytic granules that kill some virus-infected cells: myeloid: includes all the other leukocytes. Dendritic cells: antigen uptake in peripheral site & antigen presentation.
