Mdsc 321 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

MDSC 321 Midterm 1 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What makes a good vaccine? - Variolation or Inoculation (Safety) Vaccination (Cost) Effectiveness Type of Immunity Vaccine Production - Dried up small pox scabs, ship live cows to make the vaccine, own farms for vaccine production, infect egg with virus to make the vaccine, DNA vaccines take a gene that codes for one of the proteins to inject with the piece of DNA. Can't control where gene goes. Vaccine Composition (Live Atte...

MDSC 321 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is MHC? - Major histocompatibility complex What was MHC first recognized for? - Self/non-self discrimination in transplant rejection What is MHC absolutely essential for? - Displaying an antigen to T-cells What is the only way T-cells can see antigens? - In the context of self MHC How many classes of MHC are there? Define them and their function. - I - presentations of antigens inside the cell to killer T-cells II - presentatio...

MDSC 321 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+ immunology *functional definition* - how many organism interacts with the biological world. every living thing has a form of immunity. immuno provides a set of skills to allow you to question and understand these interactions; formulate answers based on evidence immunology *dictionary definition* - from Latin "Immunis" meaning exemption from service/duty, and later exemption from disease. MODERN DEFINITION: Science of how ...

MDSC 321 Second Midterm Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved Types of Antigens - - Infection(bad foreign) - gut flora(good foreign) - cancer(bad self) - autoimmunity(good self) what's recognizes antigens? - - adaptive immune system - innate only can recongize PAMPS what are antigens? - - molecule that can interact(specifically) w immunoglobulin(Ig) receptor of B cells(or T cell receptor complexed w MHC) - cells see it immunogen - - molecule that induces specific immune response ...

MDSC 321 Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+ Cardinal signals of inflamation - Celsus: Rubor= redness Tumor= swelling Calor= heat Dolor= pain Galen: Functio Laesa= loss of function Inflamation is what kind of immune response? - Inflammation is an innate, non-specific response which brings leukocytes and plasma to areas of infection by increaseing fluids (humoral). When and how did the first "vaccine" work? - In 12th century, Chinese and the Turks ground up dried...