Objectives: A lecture and laboratory course for medical technology majors which emphasizes immunological principles of medical importance. One section of this course is offered during the spring semester.

Prerequisites: Medical Microbiology (Biol 210)

Credit Value: 1

Contact Time: Two 50 minute lectures and one 3 hour laboratory each week for five weeks.

Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course the student will have:

• a mastery of the fundamentals of the discipline
• an understanding of the application of these fundamentals to the development of laboratory tests and procedures employed in the modern hospital laboratory

Assessment:

• Quizzes
• Final Examination

• NOTE: Quizzes and examination will cover both lecture and laboratory material; there is no separate laboratory examination. Emphasis may vary between instructors.

Lecture Schedule:

• Innate and acquired immunity; nature of an antigen
• Antibody structures; properties of antibodies
• Genetic basis of antibody structure
• Ontogeny of the immune response
• The major histocompatibility complex
• Triggering an immune response
• Control mechanisms
• Complement
• Hypersensitivity
• Transplantation

• NOTE: Lecture emphasis may vary between instructors.

Laboratory Schedule:

• Use of micropipettors; dilutions, titers
• Isoimmunization, blood typing, part I
• Blood typing part II, precipitation
• Immunoelectrophoresis
• ELISA

• NOTE: Laboratory emphasis may vary between instructors.