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| Udgave: |
Efterår 2012 NAT |
| Point: |
15,0 |
| Blokstruktur: |
2. blok |
| Fagområde: |
andet |
| Institutter: |
Biologisk Institut |
| Uddannelsesdel: |
Bachelor niveau |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Morten Petersen, e-mail: shutko@bio.ku.dk og Michael Lisby, e-mail: mlisby@bio.ku.dk |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
 Vis skema for kurset
Samlet oversigt over tid og sted for alle kurser inden for Lektionsplan for Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet Efterår 2012 NAT |
| Undervisnings- periode: |
Weeks 47-04 |
| Undervisnings- form: |
Lectures, seminars and reading and presentation of original literature. |
| Formål: |
The present course will focus on understanding the key elements in the development, activation and regulation of the immune system. |
| Indhold: |
The course will include:
- Cells and mechanisms involved in innate and adaptive immunity
- What is the specific immune system and how is it generated,
- The activation and effector mechanisms of T and B cells,
- Regulation of the immune system in health and disease,
- Autoimmunity, allergy, immune defects and tumor immunology
- Application of immunology in drug development and in the biopharmaceutical industry,
- Introduction to immune systems in non-mammalian organisms.
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| Målbeskrivelse: |
For at opnå karakteren 12 skal den studerende kunne:
- Beskrive immunforsvarets celler og opbygning (anatomi)
- Redegøre for struktur, genetik og funktion af vævstypemolekyler og antigen receptorer
- Beskrive det innate og adaptive immunforsvar samt gøre rede for, hvilke celler og molekyler som er centrale i forskellige faser af et immunsvar
- Beskrive hvordan immunforsvarets celler aktiveres og udfører effektor-funktioner som opsonisering, fagocytose, cytotoksisitet og produktion af cytokiner, antistoffer og andre effektor-molekyler
- Redegøre for immunforsvarets signalmolekyler og regulation, herunder den positive og negative selektion, tolerance og immunologisk hukommelse
- Beskrive immunsystemets rolle ved transplantation, immundefekter, autoimmunitet, allergi og cancer
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| Lærebøger: |
Janeway's Immunobiology, Eighth Edition, Kenneth M. Murphy, Paul Travers, Mark Walport, July 2011, and original literature. |
| Tilmelding: |
Tilmelding i perioden 15. maj -1. juni via KUnet |
| Faglige forudsætninger: |
Open to Science-, Life- and Pharma-students of Biochemistry, Biology, Nanotechnology and Molecular Biomedicine or equivalent, who have passed all first year courses and half of the second year courses (corresponding to a total of 90 ECTS-points) of their curriculum.
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| Eksamensform: |
The course will be evaluated by a written examination (4 hours without any books or other aids) with external censorship and grading according to the 7 step scale.
Reexam will be held as the ordinary exam.
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| Eksamen: |
Skriftlig prøve den 22. januar 2013.
Reeksamen: BEMÆRK at reeksamensformen er ændret til mundtlig prøve. |
| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Bemærkninger: |
The maximal number of participants is 90 students.
Teaching language will be Danish, if no foreign students participate in the course. |
| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
15/4-2013 |