Adaptive Immune System

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Hello, I'm Sam

Smith.

This podcast is going to cover the adaptive immune system.

This is the second part to a kind of a two-part series on the immune system.

The last podcast I did was on the innate immune system.

This, as I said, is on the adaptive immune system.

The first thing I'm going to talk about is some general vocabulary terms that I'm going to use quite a bit during the podcast.

And then I'll talk about the cells that make up the adaptive immune system.

And then I'll break down the adaptive immune system into the humoral branch and the cell mediated branch.

And then at the end, I'll talk a little bit about memory B cells and memory T cells.

This material is most likely to show up on one out of the four sections of the MCAT.

That is the bio biochem section.

Thanks as always for listening to the podcast.

I hope it helps.