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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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RW

Feb 2, 2021

Extremely helpful course for understanding the basis of what immunology is! I absolutely recommend it! and kudos to the instructor, she was very easy to understand and was able to keep me engaged!

MM

Jun 9, 2020

The way of teaching and the way of conducting tests are excellent. I was not much interested in immunology until I start this course but now I started loving the subject.

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Sep 19, 2020

Very sequential and detailed information.

By Bo L

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Feb 18, 2019

Very good course for learning immunology!

By Michael

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Feb 26, 2024

I thought this was an excellent course.

By NIRMAL P

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May 8, 2020

one of the best course i have attentend

By Suyash G

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Feb 25, 2020

Best introductory course to Immunology!

By Jamey S

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Mar 21, 2022

Best online instuctor I have ever had!

By Ahmed N

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Oct 22, 2020

the part of genes in immunity is hard.

By Sara J M

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May 27, 2021

Great course and a wonderful teacher

By Sumit T

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Dec 3, 2022

Thanks for broadening my knowledge.

By Frauke H

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Apr 7, 2022

nice overview and sympathic teacher

By Jorge A C P

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Jul 2, 2021

Really good course, I learned a lot

By Keila Z C S

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Feb 9, 2021

Excelente curso, bastante retador

By Swetha M

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Jun 29, 2020

It was such a informative course.

By Nida H

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Aug 10, 2021

fullfilling all our requirements

By Marcos N Q S

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May 23, 2020

excelente curso, muy recomendado

By ABIGAIL J E

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Nov 26, 2021

Excellent course. I loved it

By Sumithra M

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Feb 25, 2021

GOOD MATERIALS AND SATISFIED

By saji s

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Dec 21, 2020

Excellent way of presenting.

By Татьяна И

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Aug 22, 2019

The professor is phenomenal!

By Christy M G

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Oct 1, 2020

Thank you , great lectures!

By Aušra R

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Aug 21, 2020

a fun, non-boring course :)

By JUAN G R B

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Dec 2, 2020

recomendado, muy didáctico

By Brian G

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Feb 27, 2024

It's an excellent course.

By Aruna S

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Jul 1, 2020

Very nice and informative

By Apatsara T

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Apr 29, 2020

cute teacher cute lecture