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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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1° Year
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018
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Protein misfolding and human diseases (2016/2017)
Teaching code
4S003664
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
BIO/10 - BIOCHEMISTRY
Period
II sem. dal Mar 1, 2017 al Jun 9, 2017.
Learning outcomes
This course aims to provide information on conformational disease, protein quality control system, chaperone,inherited disorders.
In particular, students will gain familiarity with PRINCIPLES OF PROTEIN MISFOLDING;PROTEIN MISFOLDING DISEASE;MEDICAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE: DIAGNOSIS AND CURRENT THERAPIES
Program
PRINCIPLES OF PROTEIN MISFOLDING
Why Proteins Misfold
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Oxidative Stress:
Mechanisms and Link to Disease
Role of Molecular Chaperones in Protein Folding
Kinetic Models for Protein Misfolding and Association
Autophagy: An Alternative Degradation Mechanism
for Misfolded Proteins
Role of Posttranslational Modifications in Amyloid Formation
Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System to Study the
Biology of Protein Aggregation and Toxicity
Animal Models to Study the Biology of Amyloid-b
Protein Misfolding in Alzheimer Disease
PROTEIN MISFOLDING DISEASE: GAIN-OF-FUNCTION AND LOSS-OF-FUNCTION DISEASES
Alzheimer Disease: Protein Misfolding, Model Systems,
and Experimental Therapeutics
Prion Disease Therapy
Misfolding and Aggregation in Huntington Disease
Systemic Amyloidoses
Copper–Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
Folding Biology of Cystic Fibrosis: A Consortium-Based Approach to Disease
Cataract as a Protein-Aggregation Disease
MEDICAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE: DIAGNOSIS AND CURRENT THERAPIES
Imaging of Misfolded Proteins
Diagnosis of Systemic Amyloid Diseases
Identification of Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Amyloid Diseases: Quantitative Free Light-Chain Assays
Current and Future Therapies for Alzheimer Disease
Current Therapies for Light-Chain Amyloidosis
Identifying Targets in a-Synuclein Metabolism to Treat
Parkinson Disease and Related Disorders
Examination Methods
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