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Lecture Notes

For further reading on topics covered in the lecture notes and handouts see Pillai, Shiv and David Baltimore. Lymphocyte Development: Cell Selection Events and Signals During Immune Ontogeny. New York: Birkhauser-Springer, 2000.

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES/HANDOUTS
1 Overview

Lecture Notes (PDF)

Handout (PDF)

2 Cells of Immune System & Innate Immunity

Lecture Notes (PDF)

Handout (PDF)

3 Antibodies

Antibody-Dependent Protection Mechanisms

Lecture Notes (PDF 1 & PDF 2)

Handouts (PDF 1 & PDF 2)

4 Antigen Receptors & Dev. of Diversity

T Lymphocyte Development

Handouts (for Antigen Receptors) (PDF) and

Di Noia, J. and Michael S. Neuberger. "Altering the pathway of immunoglobulin hypermutation by inhibiting uracil-DNA glycosylase" Nature, Vol. 419, 5 September 2002, pp. 43-48.

Handout (for T Lymphocyte Development) (PDF)

5 B Lymphocyte Dev & Activation

Handout (PDF)

6 A Multiplicity of Problems -- Tutorial

Clinic at MGH
7 Cell-mediated Immunity

Handouts (PDF) and

Abbas, A., J. Pober, A. Lichtman, and W. B. Saunders. Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 4th edition, 2000.

8 A Complex Case -- Tutorial

Student Presentations 1 & 2: Crohn's/XLLS

Clinic at MGH
9 Lymphocyte Homing

Lecture Notes (PDF)

Handout

Cyster, Jason G. "Chemokines and Cell Migration in Secondary Lymphoid Organs." Science 286, (10 Dec. 1999): 2098-2102.

10 MHC/Antigen Presentation Lecture Notes (PDF)
11 Midterm Review Session
12 Midterm Exam
13 Too Many Infections -- Tutorial
14 Autoimmunity
15 A Bloody Glove -- Tutorial

Lymphocyte Activation, Cytokines, Costim

Handout (PDF)

16 Presentations 3 & 4: Hyper-IgM and TB
17 Fever -- Tutorial

Presentations 5 & 6: Lymphohistiocytosis/Asthma
18 Transplantation Immunology

Presentations 7 & 8: Chronic Granulomatous/MS
Lecture Notes (PDF)
19 Immunology of HIV Disease Lecture Notes (PDF)
20 Costimulation

Presentation 9: Lymphoprolif Syndrome
Lecture Notes (PDF)
21 A Boston T Party -- Tutorial

Bone Marrow Transplantation
22 Memory and Death in Immune System

IgE System & Immediate Type Hypersens

Lecture Notes (PDF)

Handouts (PDF) and

Rosen, Fred S., Max D. Cooper, and Ralph J. P. Wedgwood. "The Primary Immunodeficiencies." The New England Journal of Medicine 333, 7 (17 Aug. 1995): 431-440.

Buckley, Rebecca H. "Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases Due to Defects in Lymphocytes." Advances in Immunology 343, 18: 1313-1324.

23 Shock Therapy -- Tutorial

Presentations 10 & 11: SLE/Leprosy
24 Primary Immunodeficiencies

Breakpoints -- Tutorial
25 Presentations 12 & 13: NHL/RA
26 Tumor Immunity Handout (PDF)
27 Rheumatoid Arthritis and SLE
28 Apoptosis, An Overview
29 Pre-Midterm Material Review Session

Novel Approaches to Gene Targeting
30 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
31 Post-midterm Material Review Session
32 Immunodeficiency Syndromes/Review Lecture Notes (PDF)
33 HST 175 Final Examination