Introduction to Immunology

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Basics of Immunology, Blood Groups, Rh typing, Immunity, Red Blood cells, White Blood cells, Platelets

Created byNithya Sudhakar

Last updated 11/2020

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What you'll learn

What is Immunology?
What is Immunity?
How and why do we get fever?
What are the types of blood cells?
What are Red Blood cells or Erythrocytes or RBCs?
What are the blood groups?
What is anaemia?
What is ABO blood typing?
What is Rh typing?
What is the hazard in pregnancy for an Rh negative mother?
What are White blood cells, Leukocytes or WBCs?
In detail about neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, monocytes.
What are T-cell and B-cell?
What are haematopoeitic stem cells or HSCs?
MCQ on all the topics.

Course content

5 sections • 16 lectures • 42m total length

Introduction to Immunology1:57
Explore the foundations of immunology, including red and white blood cells, platelets, abo and rh typing, rh negative blood type, and the roles of neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes.
What is Immunology?1:31
Explore the fundamentals of immunology by defining immunity and the immune system, and explain how antibodies and sensitized white blood cells resist infections to protect health.
What causes fever?2:12
Explain how fever aids the immune system by raising body temperature, hindering pathogens, boosting white blood cell activity, and promoting antibodies against specific antigens.
Types of Blood Cells1:15
Identify the three main blood cell types—RBCs, WBCs, and platelets—and explain how RBCs carry oxygen, WBCs fight infection, and platelets aid blood clotting.

Introduction to Section 20:37
Explore red blood cells (erythrocytes), why blood is red, and the erythrocyte lifecycle. Examine anemia causes, blood group types, ABO grouping, and Rh typing.
Red Blood Cells or Erythrocytes3:38
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, transport oxygen through hemoglobin with heme iron, giving blood its red color; they form via erythropoiesis in the liver and live about 120 days.
Types of Blood Groups4:27
Explore the ABO and Rh blood group systems, A, B, AB, and O, antigens A and B, antibodies, and the slide agglutination test; learn universal donors, recipients, and plasma donors.
Rh Type4:10
Explore the Rh type and the D antigen, defining Rh positive and negative. Understand transfusion and pregnancy risks and how anti-D immunoglobulin injections prevent antibody formation.

Introduction to Section 30:31
Explore the roles of leukocytes, hematopoietic stem cells, and the classification of white blood cells, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils and their functions.
White Blood Cells or Leukocytes6:12
Learn how white blood cells, or leukocytes, defend against infection, arising from hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow into myeloid and lymphoid lineages, including neutrophils and B cells.
Eosinophils3:01
Eosinophils are bilobed cells with granules that stain pink with eosin and purple with hematoxylin, migrate to inflamed areas, fight parasites, and modulate inflammation; normal range is 30–350 per microliter.
Basophils2:48
Explore basophils, the least common yet largest type of granulocyte that release histamine and heparin to drive inflammation and prevent blood clotting.

Introduction to Section 40:27
Introduce Section four concepts: lymphocytes, monocytes, platelets, thrombocytopenia, and platelet donation. Understand the functions of these cells in immunity.
Lymphocytes4:10
Explore the roles of lymphocytes, including T cells, B cells, and NK cells, in adaptive and innate immunity, humoral and cell-mediated responses, and how memory cells enable acquired immunity.
Monocytes2:50
Monocytes are agranulocyte leukocytes circulating in blood and spleen, comprising 2–10 percent of leukocytes. They phagocytose, present antigens, secrete chemokines, and differentiate into macrophages and dendritic cells.
Platelets2:40
Explore how platelets, or thrombocytes, aid blood clotting, originate in the bone marrow, and what happens when counts drop, including donation and transfusion needs.

Requirements

This course is open to all those who are interested in immunology.
Basic biology in high school.
An internet connection and a basic computer.

Description

You will learn about basics of Immunology, Immunity, Blood Groups, Rh typing, Red Blood cells, White Blood cells, Platelets, haematopoietic stem cells, what causes fever, thrombocytopenia, eosinophilia.

The last section contains 30 questions which will help you thoroughly understand the subject.

Being my second course, I have tried to keep it simple.

Who this course is for:

This course is designed for beginners to immunology.
Graduates in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Medical and Applied Microbiology, Bacteriology

Introduction to Immunology

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 7min

Introduction to Section 24 lectures • 13min

Introduction to Section 34 lectures • 13min

Section 44 lectures • 10min

MCQ0

Requirements

Description

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