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Diseases of Signal Transduction

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OPE-JEA-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Pharmacy
  • Elective modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

OPO-GL1-T finished , OPO-G2B-T parallel

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 25

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: GYTK

Topic

Topics of signal transduction will be discussed beyond the details of the compulsory course, Molecular cell biology 2. In 12 x 45 minutes special attention is paid to mechanisms that are relevant to diseases.

The course is recommended to those students who are especially interested in the signaling aspects of pathological processes.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Course orientation. Signaling of steroid hormones.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 2. Signaling in infectious diseases (cholera, pertussis and anthrax). - Palkovics Tamás
  • 3.

    The cAMP-PKA system. Diabetes insipidus.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 4.

    Signaling of growth factors in diseases.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 5.

    Signaling through cell-cell and cell-matrix connections.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 6.

    First test exam.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 7. Signaling and inflammation. - Mikó Éva
  • 8.

    Stress signaling.

    - Bátor Judit
  • 9.

    Apoptosis signaling in disease.

    - Pap Marianna
  • 10. Integrin signaling and metastasis. - Berta Gergely
  • 11.

    Signaling gone wrong in the developing organism.

    - Sétáló György ifj.
  • 12.

    Second test exam.

    - Sétáló György ifj.

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Lecturers using ppt will load these up onto MS Teams after the classes.

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

On top of not exceeding the maximally allowed number of absences one must reach an average of minimally 1.5 of the two test grades.

Mid-term exams

Two multiple-choice test-exams, with ~25 questions each, one halfway and another one at the end of the course.

Making up for missed classes

It is not possible to make up for missed classes.

Exam topics/questions

Multiple-choice test questions based on the actually presented materials of the course.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Bátor Judit
  • Berta Gergely
  • Mikó Éva
  • Palkovics Tamás
  • Pap Marianna
  • Sétáló György ifj.
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