Description
In this module you will learn:
- How the immune system contributes to tissue damage, clinical symptoms and pathological disease.
- The link between innate immune cell activation and tissue damage.
- How cytokines mediate inflammatory immune reactions.
- The different hypersensitivity reactions and how these are related to human pathologies.
- The key immune molecules that could be therapeutically targeted in order to prevent disease.
- The importance of vaccines in protecting against infectious disease.
- The role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, acute and chronic lung disease, autoimmune disease, allergic disease, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease.
- How the ageing immune system compares to a healthy immune system.
- The link between the microbiota and immune system development and how microbial dysbiosis is associated with human disease.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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