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12992 Molecular Parasitology in Health Care - Five-year degree in Biochemistry


Center
Faculty of Biological Sciences
Departament
Cellular Biology and Parasitology
Lecturers in charge
Sin datos cargados
Met. Docent
Theory lectures - non-compulsory attendance.
Practical/demonstration classes - compulsory attendance.
Met. Avaluació
Final examination - -
Bibliografia
B. E. MATTHEWS (1998). An Introduction to Parasitology. Cambridge University Press, UK.
D.F. SMITH, M. PARSONS (1996). Molecular Biology of parasitic protozoa. IRL Press, Osford University Press, Oxford, UK.
M.A. HOY (1994). Insect Molecular Genetics: an introduction to principles and applications. Academic Press Inc., New York.
J. C. BOOTHROYD & R. KOMUNIECKI (eds.) (1995). Molecular approaches to Parasitology: Modern approaches. Mbl lectures in Biology, Vol. 12. John Wiley & Sons, UK.
Continguts
SYLLABUS:
Recombining proteins. Parasitosis and maternal-fetal relations. Molecular study of the main parasitosis. Leishmania. African trypanosomiasis. Chagas disease. Malaria. Introduction to molecular parasitology. Parasitic life as a model. Biological cycles of the parasites. Basic tools in molecular parasitology. Computacional analysis of the DNA and RNA sequences. Molecular techniques applied to proteins. Species diferentiation in vectors and parasites. Molecular diferentiation of species in vectors and parasites. Cloning of parasite genes. Molecular catheter. Genic expression and evolutive genetics in parasitology. Genic expression analysis in vivo and in vitro. Populational genetics applied to parasites and vectors. DNA microsatelites. Parasitic immunology. Parasites and the immune system. Molecular techniques applied to the obtaining of vaccines.B. E. MATTHEWS (1998). An Introduction to Parasitology. Cambridge University Press, UK.

OBJETIVES:
The aims of this subject is to gain knowledge of techniques and applications fot humans of molecular parasitology. The program tries to give a global overwiew about molecular techniques useful for the diganosis of human parasitic infections.
Objetius
URL de Fitxa
http://www.uv.es/biocelib/temaris.html