Enrollment year
2021/2022
Academic discipline
BIO/10 (BIOCHEMISTRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED BIOLOGY
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2022 - 14/06/2022)
Lesson hours
72 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Prerequisites
It is necessary to have already notions about biological chemistry.
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to give the student notions in order to work correctly in an analysis lab.
Course contents
Treated arguments: specimen collection, processing and storage.
Precision, accuracy. Sensitivity and specificity. Analytical error and quality control. Predictive value of a test. Instrumentation and analytical test: spectrophotometric techniques, chromatography, electrophoresis, immunochemical methods. During this course you will acquire information about technologies and methodological approaches of the common analysis of a routine laboratory that envisage biochemical and clinical analysis. In detail: plasma proteins, lipoproteins and risk of atherosclerosis, diagnostic enzymology, iron metabolism, porphyrins and bilirubin, metabolism of carbohydrates, liver and renal function, red blood cell disorders.
Teaching methods
lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Wilson K., Walker J., Biochimica e biologia molecolare - Principi e tecniche, Raffaello Cortina Editore
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Course material published in Kiro
Assessment methods
33 Multiple Choice Questions having 5 options as answers (only one right option). Marking Scheme: 1 for the correct answer and no deduction for wrong answers. Duration: 2 hours
Further information
33 Multiple Choice Questions having 5 options as answers (only one right option). Marking Scheme: 1 for the correct answer and no deduction for wrong answers. Duration: 2 hours
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