Your B cells at work

Your body’s immune system manages to fight off any number of pathogens on a daily basis. How does the immune system stay on the grind like that? This video is all about antibodies, the powerhouse of the immune system.

Written by Roshni & Marissa, narrated by Roshni and edited by April

thanks to Dr. Rebecca Elsner, Research Assistant Professor in Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh, for sharing her antibody expertise with us!

Cells at work is a pretty good show to learn a little bit about the immune system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cells_a...!
Correction: 09:57 script writer: Roshni and Marissa

information sources:
[1] Amoxicillin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[2] Rhinoviruses https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
[3] Adaptive & innate immune system https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[4] B cells and antibodies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[5] Immunoglobulins https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[6] VDJ recombination https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
[7] Somatic hypermutation https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
[8] Mutation rates https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[9] Diversity generation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
[10] Number of antibodies fact https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/21

image/video credit:
virus antibody animation by Drew Berry,    • COVID-19 vs Antibody (2020) Drew Berry weh...  
neutrophil video by Andrei Savitsky on Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:...


Funded by: UPMC Hillman Academy & NCI R25 YES
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