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About the Course

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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BR

Nov 21, 2020

Thank you very much Professor! I really enjoyed your lessons and passion for teaching. I am glad you are able to share your talent with the world via this medium. Looking forward to the next class!

AL

Aug 5, 2019

So far the lecturer has been very entertaining and interesting in her explanation of various concepts of immunology. I am excited to finish this course, which will be relevant to my future studies.

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By Oliver G

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Apr 20, 2020

Great in style and content (but requires prior knowledge to follow all-through)

By Jim B

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Feb 4, 2022

Great class, learned more about how I fight things that I cannot see. Cheers

By Tirthankar S

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Jun 8, 2021

One of the most detailed and well-taught Immunology courses I have ever taken.

By nkosingiphile t

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Aug 11, 2019

Thanks very much for the course. It had a good information. I benefited a lot.

By Erika B

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Jun 21, 2022

Such an engaging and clear instructor! So grateful to have taken this course.

By Jan P M

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May 20, 2020

Very helpful and high quality content! Congratulations to the whole team! :)

By Bill A

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Apr 3, 2020

Very in depth look at the field of Immunology! Perfect for times like this!

By Geraldo M J

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Dec 18, 2019

Excepcional! Um complemento fundamental para as minhas aulas de Biomedicina

By Amar P

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Aug 24, 2020

Thank you for the interactive and fun lessons throughout the 6 week course

By SAJVA V

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May 26, 2020

Very good and interesting and good lecturing.

Thank you ma'am for the gives

By Karen M R

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Dec 3, 2020

Very interesting, so a good teacher! Thank you for making understandable.

By РРРомка т

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Nov 27, 2020

Very solid, strong, massive course! And very good and cheerful teacher!

By fatma m

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May 3, 2019

It was a great course with wonderful material and organizing very well

By Chris P

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Oct 12, 2019

A really well taught introduction to the Fundamentals of Immunology.

By Vicencio D

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Apr 6, 2019

Excelente nivel, otorga una perspectiva biológica muy interesante.

By HAYA S A A H S A A

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Nov 8, 2023

The course is beautiful and I benefited from it, thank you 🇸🇦🤍

By Evan S

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Jun 14, 2020

Loved the class. Learned a lot and it was reasonably challenging.

By Brian J

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Oct 12, 2019

Strong and pretty thorough introduction to a fairly complex topic

By Ismael d l I

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Sep 22, 2020

The professor makes the course so interesting! Highly recomended

By Abdul M k k

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Jul 10, 2020

This course is provide me fundamentals immunology in great sense

By R T V U

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Jan 28, 2022

i recommend this course for all. Overall this course was good.

By Marilynne L

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Apr 13, 2021

Very good explanation of every concept for easy understanding.

By Prerna k

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Aug 7, 2020

This is by far the most informative course I have done online.

By Jhajaira A

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Apr 11, 2021

Alma is a wonderful teacher and made this course even better.

By Samuel N

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Sep 12, 2022

Very insightful with fascinating concepts. Glad i enrolled!