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Crash Course
Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer - Crash Course Biology
Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system.
Curated Video
Phagocyte
A white blood cell that helps protect the body by engulfing and absorbing harmful bacteria, dead or dying cells, waste material, or other foreign bodies in the bloodstream and tissues.
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Professor Dave Explains
The Plague Yersinia pestis
The Plague! The Black Death! You've heard of some version of this disease, which wiped out massive percentages of the global population several times in recent millenia. Terrifying, no? So what causes it? Well now we know! It's a little...
Curated Video
The Role of White Blood Cells in the Immune System
The video provides an explanation of how the immune system works to defend the body against infection from pathogens, using white blood cells. It focuses on two types of white blood cells, phagocytes and lymphocytes, describing their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phagocytes in Immunity
A description of nonspecific immunity, and the specific role of phagocytes. Understand how phagocytes engulf pathogens that enter the body as a line of defense. [16:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Role of Phagocytes in Innate or Nonspecific Immunity
An explanation of the part the inflammatory response within the immune system. [16:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology: Types of Immune Responses
Immune responses including innate, adoptive, humoral and cell-mediated. [8:07]