IMMUNOLOGY & SEROLOGY

• Serology – The study of constituents of serum, the straw-colored fluid component of whole blood.
• NATURAL IMMUNITY: ability of an individual to resist infections by means of normally present body functions.
• ACQUIRED IMMUNITY: type of resistance that is characterized by specificity for each individual pathogen, or microbial agent.
• Immune system is structured to recognize, respond to, and destroy a wide variety of invading organism that would otherwise be capable of promoting infections, harmful to the body
• detect the presence of antibodies to bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and antibodies produced against body substances - autoimmunity
• immunology - responsible for the recognition and disposal of non self materials and how they work, or can be manipulated.
• Antigen- capable of binding antibodies
• T lymphocytes that responsible for direct cell-to-cell contact.
• B lymphocytes that responsible for antibody production.
• • Cytokines are produced by both T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes.
• Von Behring & Kitasata proposed the Humoral theory of immunity in 1891.
• Louis Pasteur (Father of Immunology) introduced the first report of live “attenuated” vaccine for rabies in 1891.
• Lymphocytes are key cells involved in the adaptive immune response and represent 20% up to 40% of the circulating WBC.
• Heparin in basophils acts as an anticoagulant.
• body response to antigen

  A) natural immunity

  B) acquired immunity

  
• Histamine is a chemical your immune system releases to send messages between different cells. (anti allergic)