The aim of the module is to present actual knowledge about tumour cell`s biology and interactions of tumour cells with microenvironment (especially those leading to the invasion, metastasis and neoangiogenesis).
The main topics of the module:
Scientific terminology in oncology and in tumour cells` biology; cultures and lines of tumour cells (conditions, immunological cell profile, classification); visualization and research methods in oncology
The main features of tumour cells- markers, malignancy, invasion, metastasis
Biochemical changes in tumour cells, morphological and functional heterogeneity of tumour cells
Mechanisms and effects of intercellular communications: tumor cells-microenvironment
- Nauczyciel: Agnieszka Knopik-Skrocka