BIOL 4501 - Immunology

3 hours

Prerequisites: BIOL 1107, BIOL 1108. This course offers an opportunity to learn about the basics of the mammalian immune system. These include molecular, cellular, and physiological aspects of innate immunity and antibody-based and cell-mediated adaptive immunity. The immune response, in its various forms, is important in our dealing with infectious disease, in hypersensitivity and autoimmune diseases, in medical diagnosis, and in sophisticated medical procedures. It has consequences as a major factor both as an element for good health and as a causative factor in disease. 3 hours of lecture per week.