Methods in Cardiac Research presents PhD students to commonly used methods in cardiac research through lectures and practical demonstrations.

Learning outcome

Main topics of the course:

• Methods in molecular biology, such as Northern blotting, real-time qPCR, immunolocalisation, microarray, Western blotting and ELISA.
• Methods in cellular biology, such as cell isolation and cell culturing, patch-clamp, calcium imaging, as well as quantification of receptors and intracellular signaling pathways.
• In vivo and ex vivo testing of cardiac function in research animals, such as pressure-volume measurements, echocardiography, telemetric ECG survaillance and cardiac surgery in laboratory animals.
• Cardiac examination of patients, such as ECG, echocardiography, MR, CT, SPECT.

Teaching

Lectures and practical demonstrations in groups.

Formal requirements and examination

80 % participation and passed multiple choice exam at the end of the course.

Registration

Registration through the webpages of the University of Oslo from 1. December to 1. February.
Please visit http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/medisin/med/MF9250/

Maximum number of participants: 21.

NORHEART members will be given priority to the course.

Applicants will be notified by email 1-2 weeks after the final date for registration.

Other

Refund of travel expenses is available to all student members of NORHEART.

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