CellsoftheImmuneSystemandAntigenRecognition.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Cells of the Immune System and Antigen Recognition Jennifer Nyland, PhD Office: Bldg#1, Room B10 Phone: 733-1586 Email: jnyland@ Teaching objectives To review the role of immune cells in protection from different types of pathogens To discuss the types of cells involved in immune responses To describe the nature of specificity in adaptive immune responses To understand the role of lymphocyte recirculation in immune responses Overview of the immune system Purpose: Protection from pathogens Intracellular (viruses, some bacteria and parasites) E