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About the Course

Course 1 of a four course specialization called Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course's material. This is the first leg of a four-part journey through the defenses your body uses to keep you healthy. In this part, we hope to give you the vocabulary and concepts you need to interact with the medical community and provide them with a context that makes them memorable. Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function 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 an anatomical context. Testing employs multiple choice questions testing facts, concepts, and application of principles. Questions may refer to diagrams, drawings, and photographs used in the lecture and reproduced in the outline. What You’ll Learn: The difference between adaptive and innate immune systems, the characteristics of various pathogens that they protect you from, and the overall strategies employed in this protection. The detailed structure of antibodies and related immunoglobulin receptors, the characteristics and function of the different antibody classes, and the mechanism for producing both the recognition regions and stem regions.  Finally, how these structures are coded for in the DNA and expressed in the B cells....

Top reviews

AL

Aug 5, 2019

So far the lecturer has been very entertaining and interesting in her explanation of various concepts of immunology. I am excited to finish this course, which will be relevant to my future studies.

BR

Nov 21, 2020

Thank you very much Professor! I really enjoyed your lessons and passion for teaching. I am glad you are able to share your talent with the world via this medium. Looking forward to the next class!

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By Kamrul I S

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Mar 10, 2019

The quiz are really hard specially at 5th and 6th week syllabus. However, this course dives deep into immunology.

By Andrew M R

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Apr 13, 2022

Lecture videos were clear and helpful, a little extra detail in the study notes would have helped.

By Koyna J

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Jul 27, 2020

This is a very nice course. This course helps me a lot to gain knowledge in my interested feild.

By Julie-Kathryn G

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Feb 21, 2021

Great course, I think I could have used a little more clarity on the characteristics of V<J<C

By Emmanuel O D

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Sep 30, 2020

Is very much interesting, it give the basic of immunology, just that is too lengthy

By Mohamad A M

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Aug 12, 2019

An excellent course for medical students who are interested in Immubology

By Malvina P

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Jan 10, 2020

A good course, but the impression is spoiled by minor flaws. 4.5 stars.

By Prajakta V

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Jun 19, 2020

Very informative and a really good understanding of the Immune system

By Hugo A C R

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Aug 9, 2020

Reaching the end it gets a bit boring, nonetheless, you will learn

By yara m b

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Jan 16, 2021

Thank you very much for this course . It is very helpful for me

By Stephen P

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Dec 24, 2020

A good course with quality explanations of low-level concepts.

By Hadley S

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Jul 23, 2020

Much more difficult than advertised, but a great way to learn.

By Saad A

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Aug 22, 2020

A little bit Hard but very informative and had fun learning

By Betsegaw M

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Jan 8, 2023

great course with a great lecturer !

Thank You !!

By Anjali S

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Oct 18, 2020

Good Course. very informative

By Nor T

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Oct 3, 2021

it was fantastic experiment

By Ana L M O

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Aug 11, 2020

Falta legenda em português!

By Aamir C

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Jun 7, 2022

Amazing Way of Explanation

By asma a

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Dec 31, 2022

واقعا عالی بود

By Gifty M T

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Jun 29, 2022

INFORMATIVE

By asmaa f f k

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Jan 27, 2020

amazing

By DN V

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Apr 3, 2020

GOOD

By jaume r c

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Oct 14, 2020

Surprised at the fact to receive remainders asking why I haven't finished the course, which it is not the case, as I have done it (completed all the exams).

By Umut T

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Sep 1, 2020

It was a beginner-level course, not intermediate as offered.

By Muhamad A B A B

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Nov 5, 2020

Quite lengthy and not really focus on physiology