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About the Course

Course 3 of a three course specialization called Fundamentals of Immunology. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course's material. This is the third leg of the journey through the defenses your body uses to keep you healthy. In the first course we learned about innate immunity and B cell function. In the second course we studied T cell function and coordination of the immune response. Fundamentals of Immunology: Death by Friendly Fire 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 anatomical context. Testing employs multiple choice questions testing facts, concepts, and application of principles. Questions may refer to diagrams, drawing and photographs used in lecture and reproduced in the outline. What You’ll Learn: A survey of immune cells and how they attack pathogens, with emphasis on the mechanism of inducing apoptosis and details of Antibody Directed Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity. The inflammatory response and mechanisms of generating tolerance, presented in sequence to emphasize the decision making involved in controlling attacks. A survey of autoimmune disease, their characteristics, cause and treatment. Survey of hypersensitivity reactions, including allergy, anaphylaxis, anemias, granulomas, and a variety of skin responses. This is accompanied by identification, prevention and treatment. The final discussion of preventing transplant rejection is preceded by a detailed unit on antibody technology and the methods of testing for incompatibility....

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ZF

Sep 8, 2020

Highly recommended to Biology and Life Science students.

I liked the enthusiastic way of teaching from Dr. Alma

If you have a small interest, go ahead.

IS

Apr 21, 2020

Amazing course, brilliant lecturer, entertaining and fascinating presentation of complex material that contributes to quick memorization.

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By SANDRA M S

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Aug 15, 2020

This is really amazing.. Prof. Alma is the best

By Prashanna K

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May 10, 2020

Excellent content with a very good instructor.

By Jessica A

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Jun 16, 2021

Excellent course and very well explained.

By Sumaya M

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Mar 12, 2021

The course material is easy to understand

By JASEERA N

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Jun 16, 2020

Excellent presentation

By Rui H

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Feb 22, 2020

Very helpful to me.

By Fatima A

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Jul 29, 2021

very informative

By AGRAHARI A R G

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Sep 20, 2020

very good course

By VICTOR D R B

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Apr 24, 2021

Excelente curso

By Carlos D J M T

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Jan 18, 2021

It's excellent

By Mohamad A M

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Apr 8, 2020

perfect course

By Sathyaprakash

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Sep 12, 2020

Very good one

By MOHAMMAD G A A

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Jul 30, 2020

Good course

By Martin R

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Feb 28, 2022

Thank you!

By fernando g u

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Jun 14, 2020

excelente

By Nikhesh C

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Apr 29, 2020

very good

By JULIO C G C

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Dec 30, 2020

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By Mintu S T

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Sep 30, 2020

Cool!!

By Mohammad M H

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Jun 25, 2021

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By Mary R

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Nov 2, 2020

Another interesting and well taught course. I would have preferred more of an emphasis on disease and treatment of autoimmune diseases and hypersensitivity, at this point. I think most people know someone who suffers from these disorders. This material was much more easy to relate in the course than, for example, details of the different types of Elisa assays.

By Geoff L

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Feb 7, 2021

Some fundamentals need attention: (1) diagrams in guide and some slides have text too small to read (2) mixed use of A B and α β - with unicode no need for this (3) mismatched numbering in places, some people have pointed out in forums not fixed after several *years*

By Nadeeshani E

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Dec 1, 2020

Was a very interesting course that added more to what i already know about Immunology, in a different perspective and innovative, effective approaches

By Carita S

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May 18, 2023

Content is very good but many quizzes have errors and there is no instructor responses in the discussion forum.

By Vinay k

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May 7, 2020

It is very helpfull in my Current courses

By Vickie R R

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Aug 1, 2022

I've been enjoying this specialization but I was disappointed in a number of problems with this one. Questions on quizzes were prior to the actual lesson those questions came from. Some of the quizzes had questions that were not topics from lectures and these questions were straight recall and not critical thinking. On the final, the same question appeared twice!

Are the videos transcribed using some thyp of AI? I kept having to stop the video to correct the transcript and this slowed me down. In addition, the overall course outline was lacking figures shown in the video even though figures were supposed to be in the outline. I had to copy a lot of these missing figures to put them together with the transcript for better understanding.