Clinical Laboratory Science Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS)

Overview

Clinical Laboratory Science from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) , topics include the components of the immune system, basic immunoassay principles and immunologic techniques and the clinical symptoms and laboratory findings associated with diseases and disorders of the immune system in the human body.

Key facts

Serological procedures will be presented and their diagnostic significance will be emphasized.  Discussions include monoclonal antibodies and enzyme immunoassay detection procedures used in microbial and/or immune disorders.

Also this course introduces students to the theoretical knowledge in cellular and molecular immunology in greater depth. Students learn about the development of the immune system, the components of the immune defense and the apparatus, functions and regulation of the cellular and humoral immune defenses in health and disease. Immunogenetics, transplantation immunology, immune tolerance, immune hypersensitivity; autoimmunity and immune diseases are special topic presented in this course. Students also learn about the use of immunological methods in diagnostics and biochemical analysis.

Medical Laboratory students will familiar with different routine methods include electrophoresis and gel diffusions.  Familiarity with basis, types and mechanisms of immunological reactions, Types of immune system diseases and common tests to identify and to confirm them, new immunological tests, Clinical interpretation of immunological test results, new topics in the structure and function of the immunological system and quality control in the immunology tests.

Also this course provides up-date findings in the structure and function of the immune system, types of immune system diseases, novel findings in the immunological tests, immunological test to identify immunologic dysfunctions, auto immunity and immune deficiency, hypersensitivity and allergy, Tissue transplantation, infectious disease, and cancer.