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Docente
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PIACENTINI MAURO
(programma)
DNA: chemical composition and its duplication; Regulation of gene expression in procaryotes and eucaryotes; Protein synthesis and their post-translational
modifications; Cells, their organelles and cell types; Methods to study; Membrane: structure and dynamics; Membrane permeability and transport;
Intracellular transport and protein sorting: Protein import pathways intracellular transport and protein sorting, The endoplasmic reticulum (ER); Membrane
and secretory protein synthesis and protein translocation; Vescicular transport and processing of macromolecules: cytoskeleton and cell movement: (muscle
and non-muscle); Cell polarity, cell junctions and epithelial organization; Control of the cell cycle; Mechanics of cell growth and division; Cell adhesion and
the extracellular matrix; Organization and functions of the neuron; Organization and functions of the endothelium;
Meiosis and germ cell line; Fertilization and early phases of embryonic development; Gastrulation; Organogenesis; Gene regulation of embryonal
development; Limb and eye development; Growth factors; Cell death.
 Suggested textbooks
The Cell - A Molecular Approach (4th ed.), G.M. Cooper and R.E. Hausman, Sinauer
Associates Inc., 2007.
Developmental Biology, G.F. Scott, Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2006.
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