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Regulation Mechanisms of Immunity - MB150P13
Title: Regulační mechanismy imunity
Czech title: Regulační mechanismy imunity
Guaranteed by: Department of Cell Biology (31-151)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Explanation: https://cuni-cz.zoom.us/j/96728161230?pwd=ZHFSZDd2c2ZWUzNJbVpTbEtISEJ5UT09;Moodle: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=298
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priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Magdaléna Krulová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. RNDr. Vladimír Holáň, DrSc.
doc. RNDr. Magdaléna Krulová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Please note, the lectures are given in czech language only.

The individual lectures describe cellular and molecular mechanisms which regulate specific immune respose. The main emphasis will be devoted to the immunoreglatory cells and their products - interleukins and other cytokines which regulate or modify the final expression of immune respose. The possibilities and approaches to regulations of the immune system in experimental and clinical models will be presented. Especially, the possibilities how to enhance immune response (during tumour growth or in various infections, in immunodeficiences) or to specifically inhibit immune response (after transplantation, in autoimmune diseases or allergy) will be discussed.
Last update: Krulová Magdaléna, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.05.2019)
Literature -

The most important literature is notes from lectures. Presentations are on Moodle.
V. Hořejší, J. Bartůňková: Fundamentals of Immunology

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

The exam is an oral interview in which students demonstrate orientation in the topics discussed and understand the basic regulatory mechanisms of the immune response and the influence of the cytokine environment on events taking place in the immune system.

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)
Syllabus -

INTR0DUCTION
Cells of the immune system, T and B lymphocytes, immunoregulatory cells, antigen-presenting cells, cooperation between cells of the immune system, immunological memory. Other cell types important for immune regulation (MDSC, MSC)

IMMUNREGULATIONS BASED ON CELL TO CELL CONTACT
Antigen-specific receptors, costimulatory molecules, Fas, FasL, TRAIL and other immunologically relevant membrane molecules.

INTERACTIONS AMONG CELLS BY SIGNALLING MOLECULES
Properies of cytokines, interleukins, cytokines in pathologies and potential therapies

OTHER IMMUNOREGULATORY MOLECULES
TNF, IFN, TGF, prostaglandins, cytokine network

REGULATION OF CELLULAR AND HUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE
Development of T and B cells, determination of Th1 or Th2 responses, the role of T cell subpopulations.

IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE
Induction, neonatal tolerance, mucosal tolerance, nonspecific suppression, mechanisms of tolerance.

Last update: Krulová Magdaléna, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.05.2019)
Learning outcomes -

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  1. Define and explain the major cellular components of the immune system and their roles in regulating individual phases of the immune response, including regulatory cell subsets and antigen-presenting cells.

  2. Explain and interpret mechanisms of immune regulation mediated by interactions of cell surface molecules, including antigen-specific receptors, costimulatory, inhibitory, and adhesion molecules.

  3. Describe and explain the role of cytokines and other signaling molecules in the regulation of cellular and humoral immunity, including their involvement in pathological conditions and therapeutic interventions.

  4. Explain the mechanisms controlling the development, activation, and regulation of T and B lymphocytes, the determination of immune response types, and the regulation of effector mechanisms.

  5. Characterize and compare mechanisms of central and peripheral immunological tolerance as key regulatory steps of the immune response, including immunologically privileged sites.

  6. Explain the principles of immune regulation mediated by interactions between the immune system and the nervous and endocrine systems.

Last update: Krulová Magdaléna, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (07.01.2026)
 
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