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Unit 5: Immunology and Cancer.
An excerpt from Common
Cold by Ogden Nash:
Go hang yourself, you old M.D,!
You shall not sneer at me.
Pick up your hat and stethoscope,
Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;
I contemplate a joy exquisite
In not paying you for your visit.
I did not call you to be told
My malady is a common cold.
By pounding brow and swollen lip;
By fever's hot and scaly grip;
By those two red redundant eyes
That weep like woeful April skies;
By racking snuffle, snort, and sniff;
By handkerchief after handkerchief;
This cold you wave away as naught
Is the damnedest cold man ever caught!
Bacilli swarm within my portals
Such as were ne'er conceived by mortals,
But bred by scientists wise and hoary
In some Olympic laboratory;
Bacteria as large as mice,
With feet of fire and heads of ice
Who never interrupt for slumber
Their stamping elephantine rumba.
Objective 1:
How inflammation
works (interactive animation from Time magazine)
Immunology animation (optional)
Objective 9:
Complement
system (9c) (much of this is supplemental)
Be the phagocyte! Play the Immune System Defender Game
Immune response video (right click to download
here or watch DVD
in study center)
Immune response handout to accompany video
Objective 10:
The role of interleukins
in the defensive response (10c)
Objective 11:
Booster shots and the role
of memory cells (11b)
See optional links below for more information on vaccines and immunology
Poultry
eggs may yield snake antivenin (optional)
Objective 12:
Autoimmune
diseases result from a failure of "self-tolerance"
(optional)
Multiple
Sclerosis (optional)
Rethinking
MS: multiple sclerosis may not be an autoimmune disease
after all.
Lupus (optional)
Type-1
Diabetes (optional)
Publicly
accessible MHC database for transplant / donor matching (optional)
Objective 13:
HIV and helper T cells
See optional links below for more information on HIV / AIDS
Objective 14:
What permits metastasis? (14b)
Scientific American: How
Cancer Arises (available in Study Center; PDF available
on Blackboard)
Objective 15:
Telomeres (15d)
Fix
Those Genes or Else: defects in DNA proofreading can prompt tumors (optional)
Objective 16:
Scientific American: How
Cancer Spreads (available in Study Center; PDF available
on Blackboard)
Objective 17:
Risk factors for cancer
Immunotherapy for cancer (optional)
Learn
more (from the American Cancer Society)
See optional links below for more information on cancer
Objective 18:
American Scientist: DNA Vaccines as Cancer Treatment (available in Study Center; PDF available
on Blackboard)
HPV Vaccine: Info from the CDC
Cancer Vaccines (optional)
Scientific American: (available in Study Center; PDF available
on Blackboard) (optional)
Optional Supplementary Material:
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