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KCJJY"BRIEF INTRODUCTIONConsisting of three parts: immune system, immune responses andimmunopathology, the course allows the postgraduate students, who have been primarily trained for immunology, to learn more about the structure and functions of immune system and its significance in disease pathogenesis with contemporary concepts. The advanced study will help to lay a better background for understanding of progressed principles and knowledge, by which the students will be much improved to face their basic study and clinical practice on immunology-related medicine and life sciences.MAIN CONTENTSA. IntroductionB. Immune system: immune organs; immunocytes; immune molecules and genes (antibody and complement; cytokines and chemokines; DC antigens and adhesion molecules; the major histocompatibility complex) C. Immune response a）Innate immune response b) Adaptive immune response: antigen recognition, activation and differentiation of T and B cells; immune effective mechanisms c) Immune regulationD. Immunology and diseases (immunopathology): anti-infection immunology; Hypersensitivity and allergic diseases; autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases; tumor immunology; transplantation immunology; diagnostic immunology and immune therapyCHARACTERISTICSA. Being set for more than ten years with update contents, the course has become one of the most welcomed and best-choice lessons by postgraduates as recommended by their tutors.B. All sections and chapters in the course are taught by senior professors or associate professors of Shanghai Institute of Immunology.C. The text book used in the course is “Principles of Immunology”, a publication mainly edited and contributed by experts at the Institute and recommended as a nation-wild teaching book for postgraduates by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Republic of China. The 2nd edition featured with color figures was newly published in May 2007."
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