Archive for the tag: Immune

Immunotherapy: How the Immune System Fights Cancer

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Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to fight cancer. This animation explains three types of immunotherapy used to treat cancer: nonspecific immune stimulation, T-cell transfer therapy, and immune checkpoint inhibitors.

http://www.cancer.gov/immunotherapy
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The Immune System

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This video describes the Immune System and explains how it detects and attacks any foreign organism that enters the body.

We learn how the team in the MRC Centre for Transplantation at King’s College London have developed a way to harness the power of the Immune System after a transplant, whilst maintaining the body’s capacity to resist infectious diseases.

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Overview of the Immune System

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http://www.handwrittentutorials.com – This video gives a great overview of the cells and functions of the immune system in response to a pathogen. Both the innate and adaptive immune system are explored. This video is a good starting point for the other Handwritten Tutorials Immunology videos. For more entirely FREE tutorials and accompanying PDFs visit http://www.handwrittentutorials.com