Unit 1. Nature of the Immune System
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I. Historical Concepts
- II. Natural Immunity
- III. Specific Immunity
- IV. The Immune Response -powerpoint
- V. Complement
Unit 2. Basic Immunologic Procedures
- I. Introduction
- II. Measurement of Precipitation by Light Scattering
- III. Passive Immunodiffusion Techniques
- IV. Electrophoretic Techniques
- V. Agglutination
- VI. Labeled Immunoassays
- VII. Molecular Biology Techniques - ELISA Tutorial
Unit 3. Autoimmunity
- I. Introduction
- II. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus - http://www.lupus.org/
- III. Rheumatoid Arthritis - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rheumatoidarthritis.html
- IV. Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - http://www.thyroidmanager.org/Chapter8/8-contents.htm
- V. Graves' Disease - thyrotoxicosis - http://www.thyroid.ca/Guides/HG06.html
- VI. Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) - http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/
- VII. Other Diseases
- A. Multiple sclerosis - http://medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/ms/lectures.html
- B. Myasthenia Gravis - http://www.myasthenia.org/
- C. Goodpasture's Syndrome - http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/goodpasture/
- D. Sjogren's Syndrome - http://www.sjogrens.org/
- E. And Scleroderma - http://www.sclero.org
- VIII. Immunoproliferative Disease
- A. Introduction
- B. Plasma Cell Dyscrasias
- C. Multiple Myeloma - http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/doc.aspx?viewid=5db34eef-d9c1-47dd-94e1-3c98099798ba
- D. Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia - http://www.iwmf.com/
Unit 4. Serological Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
- Lyme's Disease powerpoint
- Streptococcal Serology powerpoint
- Hepatitis powerpoint
- Dr. Delamater's HIV presentation
