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Immunology - OD0102125
Title: Imunologie
Guaranteed by: Katedra biologie a environmentálních studií (41-KBES)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2014
Semester: both
E-Credits: 2
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, other [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (20)
summer:unknown / unknown (20)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Annotation -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D. (21.10.2018)
Basic course of immunology for students of Bc. and Mgr. study programme. Students get acquainted with the structure and function of the immune system, with natural and adaptive immunity and their regulation. Lecture is a prerequisite for following lectures like Immunology II and Immunity to Parasites.
Literature - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D. (21.10.2018)
  •  Coico R., Sunshine G.: Immunology a Short Course (6th ed.), Wiley-Blackwell 2009, 391 pp..
  • J. Krejsek, O. Kopecký: Klinická imunologie, Nucleus HK 2004, 941 str..
  •  J. Kuby: Immunology (3rd ed.), W.H. Freeman and Company 1997, 664 pp..
  •  Jiřina Bartůňková Radek Špíšek Tomáš Brdička Václav Hořejší. Základy imunologie, 6. vydání. TRITON, 2017. ISBN 978-80-7553-250-3.
Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D. (21.10.2018)

Content of lectures
1. Innate immunity - overview of basic functions: role of the immune system, basic concepts, innate and acquired immunity, regulation of immunity.
2. Experimental systems in immunology. Cells and organs of the immune system: lymphocytes, mononuclear phagocytes, granulocytic cells, primary and secondary lymphoid organs, recirculation of lymphoid cells.
3. Antigens: chemical and biological properties, adjuvants, haptens, viral and bacterial antigens, mitogens.
Structure and function of immunoglobulins: antigenic determinants on immunoglobulins, Properties and functions of immunoglobulin classes.
4. Antigen-antibody interactions: affinity, avidity, cross-reactivity. Immunochemical reactions. Monoclonal antibodies.
5. Organisation and expression of immunoglobulin genes: generation of antibody diversity.
6. Major histocompatibility complex: structure and function of MHC molecules. T-cell receptor: generation of TCR diversity, MHC restriction, development of T-cells.
7. Cytokines: structure and function of cytokines and their receptors. Development of the humoral immune response: primary and secondary response, antigen presentation, role of cytokines.
8. Cell-mediated immunity: CTL-mediated cytotoxicity, antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity, delayed-type hypersensitivity. Regulation of immunity and immunological tolerance: cytokine-mediated and idiotypic, immunosuppression. Immunologic tolerance.
9. The complement system: classical and alternative pathways of complement activation, regulation.
Hypersensitive reactions: immediate and delayed hypersensitivity, anaphylaxis, immune complex-mediated hypersensitivity.
10. Vaccines: inactivated, attenuated, subunit, recombinant. Immune response to infectious diseases: viral and bacterial infections, parasitic diseases.
11. Transplantation immunology: transplantation antigens, mechanisms of graft rejection, immunosuppression.
Immune response to tumors: malignant transformation of cells, tumor antigens, cancer immunotherapy.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Vasilis Teodoridis, Ph.D. (21.10.2018)

Oral examination

 
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