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Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	15

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The course aims to familiarize students with the basic principles of immunology. Particular emphasis will be on infectious diseases that affect the current and future challenges in global health.
COURSE CONTENT:
The teaching will take place in the form of lectures, seminars, and practical exercises.
LECTURES
1. Immune system and immunity. View immunity. Based on immune reactions. Antigens. The organization of the immune system.
2. Types of immune responses. Structure and properties of antibodies. Complement. Genes and histocompatibility antigens. Cytokines. Chemokines.
3. Mechanisms of immune responses. Physiological course of immune reactions. Humoral immunity. Cellular immunity.
4. Mechanisms of non-specific immune responses. The regulation of immune reaction. Immunotolerance.
5. Infectious sexually transmitted diseases.
6. Infectious Diseases.
7. Non-infectious diseases. Malignant diseases. COPDs. Emphysema.
8. Neurodegenerative diseases.
9. Chronic degenerative diseases.
10. Epidemic. Pandemic.
11. How do researchers contribute to global health? prevention, treatment, rehabilitation
12. Importance of global networking to improve global health
13. Organizations working in the field of global health; the World, European, and Croatian institutions dealing with health
14. Global and regional health problems: International Classification of Diseases
SEMINARS
Seminar topics are determined in consultation with students.

1. Imunologija, Andreis i sur., Medicinska naklada, 2004.
2. Patofiziologija, Gamulin i sur., Medicinska naklada, 2011.
3. www.who.int/en/, WHO.

Izborni predmeti kolegiji 2 / kemija 2 - Regular study - Biology and Chemistry Education