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Course, academic year 2026/2027
  
   
Animal tissue cultures - M320054
Title: Živočišné buněčné kultury a jejich využití
Guaranteed by: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology (320)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2026
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:3
E-Credits: summer s.:3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Jablonská Eva Ing. Ph.D.
Viktorová Jitka doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the techniques of animal cell culture and also with the methods of in vitro testing.
Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Attendance at lectures is encouraged but not monitored.

Completion of assignments accounts for 20% of the points earned.

The course ends with a written and oral part of the examination.

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Davis, John M. Animal cell culture, essential methods. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011, s. ISBN 978-0-470-66658-6.

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Teaching methods -

Lectures with practical examples, discussions with students (e.g. on bioethics).

Use of tools such as online quizzes or voting.

One invited lecture included - industry expert involved.

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

At least 50 points is required in total

The exam consists of

  • tasks (20 pts)
  • a written part (20 pts)

(at least 11 pts must be obtained to progress to the oral examination)

  • oral examination (max 60 pts)
Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction, history and legislation

2. Basics of sterile work and cultivation

3. Laboratory equipment, culture media and cultivation vessels

4. Types of cell cultures, methods of immortalization, differentiation

5. Cell line collections, authentication, overview of selected cell lines

6. Preparation of cell cultures for microscopy, visualization of cell structures

7. Transfection, selection, detection markers; specifics of High Throughput Testing (HTS)

8. Acute toxicity (MTA assays), genotoxicity

9. Receptor assays

10. Antioxidants, ADME-TOX in vitro

11. Immunotests

12. Microtumors, cocultures, barriers, flow systems

13. In vivo tests - overview

14. Specifics of working with cell cultures in the pharmaceutical industry

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Learning outcomes -

After completing this course, students will gain a basic orientation in the problems of animal cell culture. They will also gain an overview of their possible use in in vitro testing. They will also have an insight into their use in a pharmaceutical company thanks to an industry expert. They will also gain basic information about in vivo tests, which often follow in vitro tests.

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
Entry requirements -

Entry requirements in the scope of the subject Biochemistry I.

Knowledge of general subjects (chemistry, biology).

Last update: Jablonská Eva (29.04.2025)
 
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