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Hello, I'm Sam Smith.

This podcast is going to cover the adaptive immune system.

This is the second part to kind of a two-part series on the immune system.

The last podcast I did was on the innate immune system.

This, as I said, is on the adaptive immune system.

The first thing I'm going to talk about is some general vocabulary terms

that I'm going to use quite a bit during the podcast.

And then I'll talk about

the cells that make up the adaptive immune system, and then I'll break down the adaptive immune

system into the humoral branch and the cell mediated branch. And then at the end, I'll talk a

little bit about memory B cells and memory T cells. This material is most likely to show up on one out

of the four sections of the MCAT. That is the bio-biocem section. Thanks as always for listening

to the podcast. I hope it helps. All right, so last podcast I talked about the innate immune system.

And I just want to remind you about the distinction between the adaptive and the innate immune

system.

So the innate immune system tends to be this super fast, non-specific response, whereas the adaptive immune system tends to be a much slower,

more sophisticated, more targeted response to some kind of pathogen or some kind of antigen

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