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B.Sc. (Biotechnology) Immunology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the SY BSc Biotechnology syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. The University still examines the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — her third-year office registers name that scheme — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.

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Major · Semester 3 · SY BSc Biotechnology · 2 credits · 50 marks

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Syllabus for Immunology

Major · Semester 3 · SY BSc Biotechnology · 2 credits · 50 marks

Module I: Introduction to cells and organs of immune system

  • Cells of Immune system
  • Lymphoid cells - B lymphocytes, T Lymphocytes and NK cells. Subclasses of T cells: T helper cell (T H) , T cytotoxic cell (T C ), Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte (CTLs), T regulatory (Treg).
  • Antibody Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity.
  • Natural Killer T (NKT) cells, Mononuclear phagocytes, Phagocytosis
  • Granulocytic cells, Mast cells.
  • Dendritic cells (DC), Follicular Dendritic cells (FDC). (8 lectures)
  • Organs of Immune system
  • Primary Lymphoid organs- Thymus, Bone marrow
  • Lymphatic system.
  • Secondary Lymphoid organs- Lymph nodes, Spleen.
  • An introduction to Lymphoid tissue- Mucosa Associated Lymphoid Tissue (MALT), Bronchus Associated Lymphoid Tissue (BALT), Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue (GALT). (4 lectures)
  • Immunity:
  • Innate Immunity VS Adaptive Immunity. (1 lecture)
  • Active VS Passive immunity. (1 lecture)
  • Herd Immunity. (1 lecture)

Module II: Antigen Antibody interactions

  • Antigens:
  • Introduction and definition of antigen.
  • Factors governing antigenicity.
  • Types of Antigens - Intracellular, extracellular and auto antigens.
  • Complete and incomplete antigens, hapten, superantigens.
  • Concept of: epitopes, adjuvants.
  • ( 4 lectures)
  • Antibodies:
  • Definition, Discovery and Basic structure of Immunoglobulins (Ig).
  • Classes of Igs & Biological functions
  • Concept of: Antigenic determinants on Ig.
  • Immunoglobulin superfamily. ( 4 lectures)
  • Antigen - Antibody Reactions ( 7 lectures)
  • General features of Ag-Ab reactions- Prozone, Post zone, Zone of Equivalence.
  • Types of Antigen Antibody reactions
  • Precipitation - Ouchterlony, SRID, Immunoelectrophoresis, Rocket Electrophoresis.
  • Agglutination - Blood grouping and WIDAL.
  • Complement fixation tests.
  • Coomb’s test
  • An introduction to types of ELISA- Direct, Indirect, Sandwich, Competitive

Text Book

  • 1 Abbas AK, Lichtman AH, Pillai S. (2007). Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 6 th edition Saunders Publication, Philadelphia.
  • 2 Goldsby RA, Kindt TJ, Osborne BA. (2007). Kuby’s Immunology. 6th edition W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
  • 3 Ananthanarayan and Paniker's Textbook of Microbiology, Eleventh Edition
  • 4 Rao C. V. (2007). Immunology. 2 nd Edition. Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
  • 5 Pathak S. and Palan U. (2005) Immunology: Essential and Fundamental. Science Publishers, U.S.; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 February 2005) ISBN- 10:1578083796; ISBN-13:97857883794
  • 6 Immunology, 7th edition (2006), David Male, Jonathan Brostoff, David Roth, Ivan Roitt, Mosby, USA.
  • 7 Parham, P. (2005). The Immune System. New York: Garland Science.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Biotechnology) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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