overview:
The immune system uses a network of cells, tissue, and organs that help protects the body. One of the most important cells that are to protect the body are white blood cells. These white blood cells seek out and destroy foreign diseases in the body.
The immune system is organized with a first and second line of defense is our skin which cannot be penetrated
Immunodeficiency is when the immune system doesn’t work enough. Autoimmunity is an overactive immune system
Deficiencies in the immune system come in 3 different categories: immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, and hypersensitivity.
The immune system works together in a reaction called immune response with various organs and organ systems such as the Thymus, Liver, bone marrow and Lymph nodes to recognize and react against foreign material.
The immune system is organized with a first and second line of defense is our skin which cannot be penetrated
Immunodeficiency is when the immune system doesn’t work enough. Autoimmunity is an overactive immune system
Deficiencies in the immune system come in 3 different categories: immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, and hypersensitivity.
The immune system works together in a reaction called immune response with various organs and organ systems such as the Thymus, Liver, bone marrow and Lymph nodes to recognize and react against foreign material.
immune system model proposal:
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Milk and dish soap experement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQSlEViNpk
This was one of our first ideas to model the immune system. The dish soap would act as the immune system and the dyed milk would represent the bacteria. We chose not to use this idea because it was very elementary and after some thought we realized that it had almost nothing to do with the immune system or showing its functions.
This was one of our first ideas to model the immune system. The dish soap would act as the immune system and the dyed milk would represent the bacteria. We chose not to use this idea because it was very elementary and after some thought we realized that it had almost nothing to do with the immune system or showing its functions.
grand rounds project:
In this project our group was assigned a disease. Our group was given growth hormone deficiency , which is more commonly known as dwarfism. We had to role play as growth hormone deficiency patients in front of a panel of "doctors."(classmates) The doctors would ask us questions regarding our symptoms, how long it has been going on, if we feel pain, etc. After questioning the patients the doctors would analyze the data they collected and make a claim to which disease their patient has. Every student had the opportunity to play both roles: doctor and patient. This project was very interesting because it had a very real life moral. Coming to a conclusion about what disease a patient had took lots of research, but was definitely not boring or tedious.
CLEAR paragraph:
I believe that my patient, Annabel Jan Milliner has cushing’s syndrome. Although cushing's syndrome usually isn’t fatal, it can be extremely annoying and uncomfortable. My patient mentioned that she was suffering from many of the symptoms that are common in those suffering from cushing’s disease. Some of these symptoms include weight gain, fatter face, acne, and stretch marks. Cushing’s disease is the result to much of the adrenocorticotropin hormone being sent through the body. I think that Annabel has cushings disease.
I believe that my patient, Annabel Jan Milliner has cushing’s syndrome. Although cushing's syndrome usually isn’t fatal, it can be extremely annoying and uncomfortable. My patient mentioned that she was suffering from many of the symptoms that are common in those suffering from cushing’s disease. Some of these symptoms include weight gain, fatter face, acne, and stretch marks. Cushing’s disease is the result to much of the adrenocorticotropin hormone being sent through the body. I think that Annabel has cushings disease.
conclusion:
This project was fairly long and tedious at times, but I learned loads of information. Some of which I had been taught in previous years and just needed to let my mind be refreshed, but most of the material was new to me. I have come to conclusion that I now have a great understanding of the immune system, but I would not call myself an expert on the rest of the human body systems. One of my favorite parts of this project is how we all made a project with our group and we taught the rest of the class about our group's system. We should have more student taught units in the future. My least favorite part about this project is that we were assigned the hardest system(immune system). The immune system is very hard to model because it is the only system that we learned about that has to be modeled at the cellular level. The most fascinating thing that I took away from this unit was how all of the body's systems works together to keep our bodies going. Overall this project has taught me lots and given me a greater interest in human biology.