535-0830-00L Pharmaceutical Immunology
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2020 |
| Dozierende | C. Halin Winter, V. Collado Diaz, N. Haghayegh Jahromi |
| Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
| Kurzbeschreibung | The lecture provides an introduction to basic immunology. In addition, a particular focus is set on concepts and mechanisms that are of pharmaceutical relevance. |
| Lernziel | Students know and understand: -- The basic concepts and mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity - How different immunologic processes act in concert during the development and regulation of the immune response -The mechanisms of action of drugs (selected examples) that modulate the immune response |
| Inhalt | The lecture closely follows the Janeway’s Immunobiology Textbook (Chapters 1-11): - Basic concepts in immunology - Innate immunity: the first line of defense - Innate immunity: induced responses - Antigen recognition by T and B cells - Generation of antigen receptors - Antigen presentation to T lymphocytes - Lymphocyte receptor signalling - Development of T and B cells - T-cell-mediated immunity - The humoral immune response - Integrated dynamics of innate and adaptive immunity |
| Skript | Electronic access to the lecture notes (pdf files) will be provided via Ilias / myStudies. |
| Literatur | Janeway's ImmunoBiology, 9th Edition, by Kenneth Murphy & Casey Weaver Garland Science 2017, ISBN: 9780815345510 Chapters 1 - 11 |