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Inflammation Biology (AOSGEN135_1A-00)

Inflammation Biology (AOSGEN135_1A-00)
2018/19. 2nd Semester
Elective subject 
prerequisite subject: Immunology
 

Week

Lectures in NET Sz6

The sequence of the lectures may vary.

Time: 
Wednesday 
15:20-16:50

1

The place of inflammatory processes in the immune response and in the health science. Introduction
ppt   ppt

6 Feb

2

No lecture due to the Research Students' Conference

 

3

Inflammatory cells I.: Antigen presenting cell, monocytes-macrophages, eosinophils and neutrophils
pdf   pdf

20 Feb

4

Inflammatory cells II.: Basophils and mast cells
ppt

27 Feb

5

Molecular mechanisms of the acute inflammation
ppt

6 March

6

Chemotaxis and chemokines in the inflammation
pdf

13 March

7

Histaminology
ppt

20 March

8

Genomics of acute phase reactants
ppt

27 March

9

Autoinflammatory diseases
ppt

3 Apr

10

Epigenetics of inflammation
ppt

10 Apr

 

Spring Holiday

11

Role of inflammation in the regeneration and tumorigenesis
ppt

24 Apr

12

Public Holiday

 

13

Inhibition of inflammation, biological therapies
ppt

8 May

14

Summary; Exam consultation

15 May

For the valid semester and for the exam registration students have to visit at least 75% of the lectures (Academic and Examination Rules, Article 17, Section 7). Do not register into this course if you have other lesson in the same or overlapping time!


Exam info

The exam mark will be calculated from the scores of a written test. The questions are based on the lecture presentations. For downloading the presentations you have to login onto our homepage. The user name and the password can be found in the web address line of Neptun course page.


Recommended literature:

  • Jakab L, Kalabay L: The acute phase reaction syndrome: The acute phase reactants. (A review). Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica 45:409-418, 1998.
  • Fulop AK, Falus A. Possibilities and results in the wide-scale genomic analysis of inflammation. Looking for the child among many midwives. Inflamm. Res. 2004 Oct;53(10):517-22.
  • Fülöp AK: The role of histamine in the hepatic acute phase reaction and systemic inflammation (Chapter 4.4.) in Falus A. (Ed.): Histamine Biology, Spring Med and Karger 2004.
  • Andras K. Fulop : Genetics and Genomics of Hepatic Acute Phase Reactants: A Mini-Review. Inflammation & Allergy - Drug Targets, 2007, 6(2), 109-15.
  • Laszlo Bene, Andras Falus, Noemi Baffy, Andras Kristof Fulop: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in the Two Major Forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Pathol. Oncol. Res. (2011) 17:463–472
 
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