Lympotoxin alpha Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Information on the basis of antibodies, function, role in vaccination and development of auto-antibodies. Antibodies as experimental tools, clinical drugs and engineering.

Lecture on dendritic cells, information on the role in the activation of the immune system, pattern recognition receptors and tailored immunity, and use in therapeutics and vaccines.

Contains information and images on cells of the immune system, activation, initiation of the immune response, B and T cells, the complement system, MHC receptors, antibody functions, and information on the mucosal immune system (including microbiome).

T cell priming, techniques to measure T cell responses, and COVID-19 and T cells.

Lecture on lymphoid organ development and functioning containing formation of the lymph nodes, information on lymphotoxin alfa, cell population in lymphoid organogenesis, retinoic acid and the role in development, the control of self-reactive lymphocytes, stromal cells and MHC-II expression, self-antigen expression and T regulatory cells conversion, location, function, and conversion mechanism.

Information on etiology, and how to identify and classify them. Severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID), atypical leaky SCID, combined immunodeficiencies diagnosis and treatment of SCID. Antibody immunodeficiencies.

Information on recognition, formation of vaccines, zwitterionic polysaccharides presentation, and lipid recognition.

Information on immune cells in the CNS, multiple sclerosis as an example, immune cell filtration through the blood-brain barrier, and immunotherapy in multiple sclerosis.

The role of metabolism in the immune response.