IMMUNOLOGY

Paper Code: 
ZOL-512
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
7.00

Immunology

  • Definition
  • Types of immunity; innate and acquired: humoral and cell mediated.

Antigen: Antigenicity of molecules, haptens

8.00

Antibody

  • Definition. (IgG. IgM. IgD. IgA and IgE)
  • Outline idea of properties and function of each class of immunoglobulin.

Antigen-antibody reactions

  • Precipitation reaction,
  • Agglutination reaction,
  • Neutralizing reaction,
  • Complement

Lytic reactions and phagocytosis

10.00

Cells of Immunity

  • Macrophages.

Lymphocytes (B- and T- types). T.- Helper cells.T-killer cells, plasma cells and memory cells

12.00

·          MHC genes and gene products.

·         Mechanism of Humoral & Cell mediated  immune response

Complement and its action

8.00
  • Autoimmunity : Hashimoto thyroiditis, Myasthenia gravis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus
  • Immunodeficiency: AIDS- causes, symptoms, treatment, mode of infection, HIV lifecycle
  • Hypersensitivity- Type I and II.
  • Cvtokines Types, Properties and Function.
Essential Readings: 
  • Kuby, Immunology, W.H. Freeman and Company.
  • D.M. Wear, Immunology ELBS (English) Language Book Society Low       Priced edition,  Longman Singapore Publishers Ltd.
  • Iyan M. Roitt essential Immunology EIBS Low Priced Edition Black
  • Kindt, T. J., Goldsby, R.A., Osborne, B. A. and Kuby, J (2006).  Immunology, VI  Edition. W.H. Freeman and Company.
  • David, M., Jonathan, B., David, R. B. and Ivan R. (2006).  Immunology,VII Edition, Mosby, Elsevier Publication.
  • Abbas, K. Abul and Lechtman H. Andrew (2003.) Cellular and Molecular  Immunology. V Edition. Saunders Publication.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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