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Modul LS3252-KP05

Metabolic Medicine (MetabolMed)

Duration:


1 Semester
Turnus of offer:


each winter semester
Credit points:


5
Course of studies, specific field and terms:
  • Bachelor Molecular Life Science 2024 (optional subject), life sciences, 5th semester
  • Bachelor Biophysics 2016 (optional subject), life sciences, 5th semester
Classes and lectures:
  • Tissue Engineering (seminar with practical exercises, 2 SWS)
  • Metabolic Medicine (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
  • 60 Hours in-classroom work
  • 90 Hours private studies
Contents of teaching:
  • Metabolic physiology
  • glucose metabolism & diabetes
  • lipid metabolism & obesity, adipokines
  • gastroenterology
  • thyroid
  • central appetite regulation
  • circadian clocks & metabolism
  • sleep & metabolism
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
  • Understanding the principles of energy homeostasis
  • Understanding physiological interactions of different compartments in the context of energy metabolism
  • Students know the symptoms of major metabolic disorders and their pathophysiological causes
Grading through:
  • written exam
Requires:
Responsible for this module:
Teachers:
Literature:
  • Keith N. Frayn: Metabolic Regulation: A Human Perspective - Wiley & Blackwell, 2010
Language:
  • German and English skills required
Notes:

Principle knowldege in physiology and biochemistry required.
To this module belongs the seminar Tissue Engineering.
Entrance requirement for the seminar: certificate of the course Biochemistry 1 or 2.

Letzte Änderung:
24.7.2023