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Principles of Immunology INTRODUCTION • The immune system serves as a means to resist infection. • It is comprised of two major sub-divisions; The innate and adaptive/acquired immune systems. • Its main function is to discriminate between self and nonself, thus protecting against in...

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Principles of
Immunology
INTRODUCTION

,• The immune system serves as a means to resist infection.
• It is comprised of two major sub-divisions; The innate and
adaptive/acquired immune systems.
• Its main function is to discriminate between self and non-
self, thus protecting against invading organisms and to
eliminate modified or altered cells.
• There are both cellular and Humoral aspects to both
adaptive/acquired/specific and innate immune responses.
• All the cells involved in the immune system are derived
from bone marrow.
• There are both myeloid cells i.e. neutrophils, basophils,
eosinophils, macrophages and dendritic cells and
lymphoid cells i.e. B and T lymphocytes and Natural Killer
cells.
• These cell types differentiate along distinct pathways from
both myeloid and lymphoid progenitor (stem) cells.

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, • Organisms such as bacteria, viruses and parasites are
collectively referred to as pathogens.
• Antigens are substances that elicit a specific immune
response.
• Most are large polysaccharides or proteins from a foreign
organism.
• They include pollen and foreign tissue as well as viral
proteins and bacterial flagella, cell walls, capsids etc.
• Haptens are small molecules that are not antigenic
unless coupled with a carrier molecule.

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