{"id":207,"date":"2023-12-09T01:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2023-12-09T01:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T01:47:40","slug":"immunology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/immunology\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This semester I took Introduction to Immunology concurrently with cancer biology. While these two classes didn&#8217;t have many similarities there was some overlap that I could appreciate. In cancer biology I learned how cancer cells were able to sustain proliferating signals while evading detection from the immune system. In Immunology we learned about the ways the immune system mounted responses to foreign pathogens and how effective it is at its job. I was able to find appreciation in how crafty and evasive the cancer cells are in evading immune cells and ways the immune system could be taken advantage of. Other things I learned is the difference between the classical, lectin and alternative pathways and the difference between apoptosis and necrosis. The most interesting topic covered this semester in my opinion was Wass the time it takes to mount a response from the innate and adaptive immune systems and how quickly the body can produce memory cells to be better prepared for a reinfection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-1013x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-1013x1024.png 1013w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-768x776.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-1520x1536.png 1520w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-833x842.png 833w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM-190x192.png 190w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.44.00-PM.png 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-932x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-932x1024.png 932w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-768x844.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-1398x1536.png 1398w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-833x915.png 833w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM-175x192.png 175w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31787\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-08-at-8.46.01-PM.png 1659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester I took Introduction to Immunology concurrently with cancer biology. While these two classes didn&#8217;t have many similarities there was some overlap that I could appreciate. In cancer biology I learned how cancer cells were able to sustain proliferating signals while evading detection from the immune system. In Immunology we learned about the ways &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/immunology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immunology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25666,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/biology-with-mccray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}