3. 1. 4. b Propaedeutic Immunology
First Clinical Year, Module offering 5x per year, only winterterm
ECTS-Credits:
Duration: 1 week
Language of Instruction: German
- Content
- Basic mechanisms of the humoral and cellular immune response
- Innate and adaptive immune response to microbial pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites)
- Immuneescape of pathgogens
- Mechanisms of immune response to tumours
- Immune escape of tumours Immune mechanisms of hypersensitivity reactions (e.g. Allergy)
- Tolerance and autoimmunity; Immundodeficiency
- Immune response in graft rejection; Introduction to immunohaematology and transfusion medicine
- Immune intervention (immunosuppression, immune therapiy, immunoprophylaxis-vaccination)
- Aims (learning outcomes and competences)
- Lectures should provide a basic understanding of molecular mechanismen of the immune response to pathogens (physiologie und pathophysiology on the pathophysiology of hypersensitivity reactions (e.g. allergy),of autoimmune diseases/chronic inflammation, immunodeficiency and on principles in transplatation immunology ansd immunohaematology.
- In PBL a clinical oriented case should enable students to develop problem solving strategies, team work and presentation techniques.
- The practical course should enable students to perform selected clinically relevant diagnostic methods and to allow the interpretation of results.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge from preclinics: Biochemistry, Physiology, Histology, Cell Biology
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, Problem-based Learning (PBL), Practical Training
- Examination /Assessment methods
- Online written examination after 2nd part (Infectiology/Clinical Immunology, 3rd Clinical Year)
- Recommended reading
- Janeway, Travers, Walport, Shlomshik: Immunobiology, 6th ed. 2005, Garland Science Publishing
- Roitt, Brostoff, Male: Immunology, 6th ed. 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd
- Delves, Martin, Burton, Roitt: Roitt's Essential Immunology, 11th ed. 2006, Blackwell Publishing
