List of most probable exam, interview and viva questions on Immunology Q.1. What do you mean by Immunology? Ans. Immunology is the study of specific resistance to further infection by a particular microorganism or its product's Immunology is the science which deals with the body's response to antigenic challenge. Immunology, the study of the immune system, grew out of the [...]
The following points highlight the three main forms of adaptive immune response. The forms are: 1. Humoral Immune Response 2. Cellular Immune Response 3. The Complement System. Form # 1. Humoral Immune Response: It is during the fifth month of intrauterine life that immunoglobulin producing cells appear in the spleen and lymph nodes. Subsequently, both IgM and IgG are synthesised [...]
Antigen (Ag) antibody (Ab) reactions occur when an antigen combines with a corresponding antibody to produce an immune complex. Therefore, an antigen-antibody reaction is thus a bimolecular association which is similar to an enzyme-substrate interaction but the only difference is that antigen-antibody reaction does not lead to an irreversible chemical interaction. The basis for antigen-antibody reactions are the non-covalent interactions [...]