The Key to Immunology-Antigenicity vs Immunogenicity T Dependent vs T Independent: A Laboratory Investigation in Immunology

Developed by: Pamela Rice
© American Association of Immunologists 2001

Overview
This guide contains a curriculum giving background information on immunology and an ELISA protocol that will demonstrate the difference between an antigen versus an immunogen. Second, the laboratory could be utilized to increase a students understanding of current research techniques used in the performance of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay lab (ELISA) if contact with a university or college is established.

Suggested Time Line

Suggested Time is seven calls periods of 40 minutes.

Day 1
introduce immunology notes to students
class discussion on disease

Day 2
introduce ELISA protocol

Day 3
analyze the reasons for the procedure steps
analyze the ELISA experiment results

Day 4
having formed partnerships with a lab, start ELISA lab

Day 5
complete ELISA lab

Day 6
compare experiment results to previous experiment

Day 7
project assessment

To receive a copy of this curriculum, please contact: The American Association of Immunologists, telephone: (301) 634-7178, fax: (301) 634-7887, email infoaai@aai.org.