LF:STIM051c Immunology - practice - Course Information
STIM051c Immunology - practice
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2006
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. MUDr. Jiří Litzman, CSc. (seminar tutor)
prof. MUDr. Jindřich Lokaj, CSc. (seminar tutor)
prof. MUDr. Vojtěch Thon, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Miroslava Bučková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Jiří Litzman, CSc.
Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: prof. MUDr. Jiří Litzman, CSc. - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- VSBC0221p Biochemistry I -lect. && VSLC011p Med.Chem.- lecture && VSBI0222p Biology II - lecture && ( VSBF011p Biophysics || STBF011p Biophysics ) && VSFY0422s Physiology II - seminar && VSFY0422p Physiology II - lecture && VSBC041s Biochemistry II -s && VSBC041c Biochemistry II -pract. && VSLT0221s Bas. Med. Terminol. II -s && VSET021 Medical ethics
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Stomatology (programme LF, M-ST)
- Syllabus
- Clinical immunology laboratory
- Significance of the past history and of basic clinical and laboratory investigations for indication of immunological tests. Blood count. Serum proteins.
- Laboratory markers of inflammation.
- Blood collection.
- Diagnostic antisera.
- Interaction between antigen and antibody in vitro. Primary and secondary immunological interactions.
- Serological reactions - overview. Specificity and sensitivity. Titration of serum.
- International units.
- Direct and indirect agglutination.
- Blood groups. Rheumatoid factor.
- Precipitation. Double immune diffusion.
- Radial immunodiffusion.
- Turbidimetry, nephelometry.
- Immunoelectrophoresis, immunofixation.
- Blotting techniques.
- Clinical significance of paraproteinemia.
- Monoclonal antibodies.
- Immunofluorescence tests.
- Enzyme analysis (ELISA). RIA.
- IgE determination.
- Clinically significant organ specific and organ non-specific autoantibodies.
- CD nomenclature of leukocyte antigens.
- Phenotyping of lymphocytes. Flow cytometry. Lymphocyte proliferation tests. Cytotoxicity.
- Evaluation of phagocytic cells.
- Immunophenotyping of leukemias.
- Complement system tests.
- Circulating and localised immune complexes.
- HLA typing. Molecular genetic in immunology.
- Skin tests for early hypersensitivity.
- Delayed-type hypersensitivity tests. Anergy.
- Prevention and treatment of allergic diseases.
- Drug hypersensitivity.
- Anaphylactic shock.
- Indication and interpretation of immunological tests.
- Literature
- LITZMAN, Jiří, Martin PETŘEK and Vojtěch THON. Vyšetřovací metody v klinické imunologii (Investigation methods in clinical immunology). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova universita, 1998, 45 pp. ISBN 80-210-1807-0. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Zápočet po absolvování povinné výuky
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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