Section outline

  • Instructions

    • Review the terminology on the vocabulary list.
    • Watch the CoVID-19 video.
    • Take the quiz.
    • Review supporting materials
    • MedCram 46 URL
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      The video examines the role of the innate immune system in fighting a CoVID-19 infection. It also examines the possible use of hyperthermia and hypothermia in the treatment of the disease.

    • Vocabulary for Topic 2 Assignment
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      1. Saturation = the state or point of being full or at capacity.
      2. ICU = Intensive Care Unit
      3. Bolus of patients = Bolus - a large amount or a large number of something. e.g., Bolus of medicine, or bolus of patients.
      4. Isolation = A condition in which a patient is to have limited contact with other humans.
      5. Diminished = Reduced, to make smaller, to make less significant
      6. Innate immune response = The part of your immune response that is present at birth, which is different from your acquired immune response that is developed over time in response to infections.
      7. Down-regulated = to reduce the response to something over time.
      8. Fever / Febrile = condition in which the body temperature is about the normal range 36.1 -- 37.2 C
      9. in veto = research done in the laboratory on non-living systems or non-animal systems
      10. in vivo = research done in living organisms.
      11. Pneumonia = lung inflammation caused by a bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs (alveoli) fill with pus (dead white blood cells, dead infectious organisms, and debris from dead infected cells) and may become solid. Inflammation may affect both lungs ( double pneumonia ) or only one ( single pneumonia ).
      12. Hyperthermia = body temp. above the 40 C, the condition is related to a loss of thermal regulation by the body.
      13. Hypothermia = body temp. below 35 C, the condition is related to a loss of thermal regulation by the body.
    • Quiz -- Topic 2
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      After viewing the video and the vocabulary list, take the quiz.

    • Immune responses in COVID-19 and potential vaccines: Lessons learned from SARS and MERS epidemic URL
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      Online PDF file

    • Immune responses in COVID-19 and potential vaccines: Lessons learned from SARS and MERS epidemic File
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      PDF file that you can download and print.