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Detection and Identification of Plant Diseases
In this lecture video, the speaker discusses the detection and identification of plant diseases. They explain how to detect signs of diseases in plants, such as stunted growth, spots on leaves, and discoloration, and how to identify...
Learning Mole
Infections
A series that is perfect for PHSE and primary school students, each video will cover a dangerous situation and how to go about staying safe if ever students find themselves in these situations. This episode focuses on what to do if you...
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Principle of Immunisation
It explains the basic principle of immunisation and explains vaccines. It lists a few diseases against which vaccines are available.
Professor Dave Explains
Pattern Recognition Receptors
We've already introduced pattern-recognition receptors, which recognize PAMPs and DAMPs, but now let's go over the specific types, and how they work. How many Toll-like receptors are there and what do they recognize? What are the adaptor...
Curated Video
Factors Affecting Food Security
In this video, the topic of food security and its various factors affecting food supplies are discussed. The narrator explains that having enough food to feed a population, especially when population numbers are rising, is important for...
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Prevention of Infection and Spoilage of Food
It explains infections caused by disease-causing microbes and describes methods of food preservation.
Curated Video
How the Human Body Defends Itself Against Pathogens
The video discusses the human body's defense system against pathogens. It explains that there are two lines of defense - the nonspecific defense system that prevents pathogens from entering the body, and the immune system that destroys...
Catalyst University
The Appendix & Basics of Tonsils and Peyer's Patches
In this video we discuss in detail the functions of the vermiform appendix (or simply, appendix) and the process of developing an appendicitis. At the end, we briefly mention two other secondary lymphoid structures (tonsils and Peyer's...
Catalyst University
Alternative Pathway of Complement Activation
Alternative Pathway of Complement Activation
Curated Video
Identifying Specific Plant Diseases and Their Defenses Against External Threats
The video discusses specific plant diseases and ways in which plants defend themselves against external threats. It highlights some signs of plant diseases, such as spots on leaves, decay, growths, and discoloration, and discusses how to...
Curated Video
Monoclonal Antibodies: Production and Applications in Medicine
The video discusses the production of monoclonal antibodies, which are specific antibodies produced from a single clone of cells that can target and destroy specific pathogens or cells in the body. The video explains the process of how...
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Plant Disease
Plants have a range of physical and chemical barriers to prevent infection, but they can become infected with bacterial, viral, fungal pathogens or insect pests. If this happens the plant can produce chemicals in an attempt to limit the...
Curated Video
Toxoplasmosis: Can Your Cat Make You Go Crazy?
Toxoplasma gondii, is a unicellular parasite that changes the behavior of its host! A 2002 study showed that people who had toxoplasmosis got into more car accidents than uninfected people. Later research, in rats (another host) and...
Curated Video
Why Are Some Meats Eaten Raw And Some Are Not?
Raw meat from certain animals, such as fish, contain fewer pathogens – bacteria, viruses, and parasites – that can infect humans. Eating raw meat depends on several factors, including preparation, hygiene conditions, the source of the...
Professor Dave Explains
The Inflammatory Response
We touched upon the inflammatory response in the Anatomy & Physiology series, but now it's time to go much deeper. What is inflammation on the cellular level? Which cell types are involved with the response, and what are the mechanisms...
Visual Learning Systems
The Human Immune System and the Lymphatic System
This video provides an overview of the human immune system, highlighting the role of white blood cells in fighting pathogens. It explains the functions of different types of leukocytes, the transportation of white blood cells through the...
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding the Body's Defense Mechanisms
This video provides an overview of the body's defense mechanisms, specifically focusing on the first and second lines of defense, to protect against pathogens that enter through skin injuries. Investigating the Immune System part 3/9
Visual Learning Systems
Investigating the Immune System Review
This video reviews the topics covered in the Investigating the Immune System series. Topics include the transmission of pathogens, the body's defense mechanisms, the cells and structures involved, the immune response processes, and...
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Principles of Treatment of Infectious Diseases
It describes the common manifestations of infectious diseases and various approaches to treat diseases.
Curated Video
Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Immunity Explained
The immune system (or immunity) can be divided into two types - innate and adaptive immunity. This video has an immune system animation. The innate immune system consists of defenses against infection that are activated instantly as a...
Curated Video
Pathogens and Common Infections: Types, Transmission, and Prevention
This video provides an overview of pathogens, which are disease-causing organisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protists. It explains how these pathogens are transmitted from person to person through water, oral transmission,...
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Physical Defenses Against Pathogens
This video is a lecture presentation on physical defenses against pathogens. The presenter discusses the ways in which pathogens can be transmitted from one host to another and how we can limit their spread through measures such as good...
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I WONDER - What Does The Immune System Do?
This video is answering the question of what does the immune system do.