Pathobiochemistry


3rd year General Medicine

winter term 2019/2020

If you have any questions or comments, please contact

Martin Hřebíček, M.D., PhD. (martin.hrebicek@lf1.cuni.cz, tel. 2 2496 7208).

Syllabus and presentations

The lectures take place each Monday and Friday in the lecture hall CHE1P1 (Kateřinská 32, 2nd floor, Room 3.073 ) Kateřinská 32, Praha 2

Week

Date

Time

Room

Lecture

Lecturer

1

2.10.2023

Mon 16:15 - 17:45

DEKP2

Introduction to biochemical genetics

Prof. Kožich

1

6.10.2023

Fri16:15 - 17:45

CHE1P1

Hereditary disorders of amino-acid metabolism

Prof. Kožich

2

9.10.2023

Mon 16:15 - 17:45

DEKP2

Hereditary disorders of saccharide metabolism and protein glycosylation

Asst. Prof. Hřebíček

2

13.10.2023

Fri16:15 - 17:45

CHE1P1

Hereditary disorders of metabolism and biogenesis of lysosomes and peroxisomes

Asst. Prof. Hřebíček

3

16.10.2023

Mon 16:15 - 17:45

DEKP2

Disorders of mitochondrial metabolism; pathobiochemistry of fasting

Assoc. Prof. Ješina

3

20.10.2023

Fri16:15 - 17:45

CHE1P1

Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

Assoc. Prof. Stibůrková

4

23.10.2023

Mon 16:15 - 17:45

DEKP2

Diagnosis and therapy of monogenic disorders of metabolism

Prof. Kožich


DEKP2 (U Nemocnice 4, ground floor, Room 1.26) U Nemocnice 4, Praha 2

CHE1P1 (Kateřinská 32, 2.nd floor, Room 3.073) Kateřinská 32, Praha 2


The lectures are held in Lecture Rooms CHE1P1 (Kateřinská 32, 2nd floor, room 3.073) and

DEKP2 (U Nemocnice 4, ground floor, Room 1.26) U Nemocnice 4, Praha 2


 

 

 

 

 

Group I. General topics

 

1. IEM of small molecules (substrate accumulation) - pathogenesis, symptoms and treatment options, examples

 

2. IEM of small molecules (product deficiency) - pathogenesis, symptoms and treatment options, examples

 

3. IEM of complex molecules (substrate accumulation) - pathogenesis, symptoms and treatment options, examples

 

4. IEM of complex molecules (product deficiency) - pathogenesis, symptoms and treatment options, examples

 

5. Newborn screening of IEM - general principles of organization, criteria for inclusion of diseases, incidence of screened diseases in the Czech Republic, laboratory methods

 

6. Laboratory methods of IEM diagnostics and diagnostic approaches to IEM in symptomatic patients.

 

7. Fasting and IEM in which the symptoms are triggered by fasting.

 

8. Inheritance of IEM - examples of autosomal recessive, X-linked and maternally inherited IEM.

 

9. Principles of treatment of IEM of small molecules.

 

10. Principles of treatment of IEM of complex molecules.

 

 

 

Group II. Individual IEM

 

1. Phenylketonuria and hyperphenylalaninemia, including incidence, causes, clinical symptoms, treatment, maternal hyperphenylalaninemia

 

2. Disorders of metabolism of aromatic amino-acids except phenylketonuria, including tyrosinemia, alcaptonuria. IEM of branched-chain amino-acids (including maple-syrup urine disease and isovaleric, propionic and methylmalonic acidemias).

 

3. Disorders of urea cycle (hyperamonemias).

 

4. Genetic and dietary disorders of metabolism of folic acid, vitamin B12, and sulphur amino-acids.

 

5. Disorders of fructose and galactose metabolism

 

6. Glycogenoses (liver and muscle glycogenoses and Pompe disease).

 

7. Disorders of mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids and carnitine cycle, including MCAD, VLCAD, and LCHAD.

 

8. Gout (primary and secondary).

 

9. Disorders of purine and pyrimidin metabolism.

 

10. Mitochondrial disorders

 

11. Classification and patophysiological mechanisms of lysosomal disorders, example : features of a group of lysosomal diseases

 

12. Mucopolysacccharidoses and glycoproteinoses

 

13. Lipidoses, Niemann-Pick type C disease.

 

14. Peroxisomal disorders

 

15. Disorders of glycoprotein glycosylation (CDG syndromes).


 

 

 

Last update: Sept 24th, 2018