Non-specific immunity
digital file Black & White Sound 1973 54:09
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Summary: Dr John Humphrey lectures on non-specific immunity, differentiating it in detail from specific immunity and providing examples of its manifestations and treatments. 10 segments.
Title number: 18205
LSA ID: LSA/21362
Description: Segment 1 Gilliland introduces Humphries. Humphries describes why he is interested in non-specific immunity as opposed to more specific kinds of immunity. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:39:00 Length: 00:05:39:00 Segment 2 Humphries talks about how microbes can be prevented from penetrating the body without this process involving specific immunological mechanisms. Time start: 00:05:39:00 Time end: 00:11:14:00 Length: 00:05:35:00 Segment 3 Humphries discusses antibodies, differentiating between those inherited at birth from the mother and those acquired during life. Time start: 00:11:14:00 Time end: 00:15:02:12 Length: 00:03:48:12 Segment 4 Humphries continues to look at antibodies and he introduces a short film sequence showing human granulocytes ingesting bacteria. Time start: 00:15:02:12 Time end: 00:19:51:20 Length: 00:04:49:08 Segment 6 Humphrey continues his discussion and detailed description of granulocytes and the role they play in the immune system. He then moves on to discuss cytotaxins. Time start: 00:24:59:00 Time end: 00:29:14:20 Length: 00:05:45:20. Segment 7 Humphrey describes which kind of enzymes are most prevalent in granulocytes - these are listed in a table. He also refers to electron micrographs of macrophages. Time start: 00:29:14:20 Time end: 00:37:16:00 Length: 00:08:02:00. Segment 8 Humphrey talks about opsonins which are specific antibodies which have a specific function during an immune response. Time start: 00:37:16:00 Time end: 00:41:04:00 Length: 00:03:48:00. Segment 9 Humphrey moves on to discuss adjuvants which increase the presence of macrophages during an immune response. Time start: 00:41:04:00 Time end: 00:49:13:00 Length: 00:08:09:00. Segment10 Humphrey concludes the lecture and summarises the main points. Time start: 00:49:13:00 Time end: 00:54:09:13 Length: 00:04:56:13
Credits: Presented by Dr John Humphrey, National Institute for Medical Research, London. Introduced by Dr Ian Gilliland. Produced by Peter Bowen. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation.
Further information: This video is one of more than 120 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.
Keywords: Immunity; Immune System; Antibodies
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; University of London
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