Slide 1 Defense Against Infectious Diseases Topic 11.1 Slide 2 Assessment Statements 11.1.1Describe the process of blood clotting. 11.1.2 Outline the principle of challenge…
Slide 1 Dr Shoaib Raza Slide 2 Immune reactions against self antigens Affects 1% to 2% of US population Requirements for an autoimmune disorder: Presence…
Slide 1 Tolerance & Autoimmunity Slide 2 Two major aspects to regulation of the immune response 1. Developmental pathways of immunocompetence 2. Response of mature lymphocytes…
Slide 1 Immunotherapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease Cynthia A. Lemere, Ph.D. Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical…
Autoimmunity All of us have many autoantibodies Difference is in quantiy and consequences Mechanisms how normal immunity change to autoimmunity are multiple Disease from…
TOLERANCE Deletion, anergy or ignorance? Normal thyroid Diseased thyroid If the immune system fails to âdeleteâ or anergise tissue reactive lymphocytes, AUTOIMMUNITY occurs…