课程内容简介(英文) KCJJY"The application of radioactive isotope in biomedical research is an important part of the peaceful use of atomic energy. A lot of applications are up to now un-replaceable by other techniques. This is an experimental course. 1/3 time will be lectures and 2/3 time will be experiments covering the following portions:1. Basic nuclear physics and fundamental measuring techniques: The basic nuclear physics involves the main types of nuclear decay, law of decay, definition and units of radioactivity and the interaction of radiations and materials. The measuring techniques involve the basic principle and counting statistics of ? counting and liquid scintillation counting. An experiment will be carried out on the measuring techniques.2. Labelled compounds and principles of tracer technique: These will involve the types of radio-isotope labeled compounds, their main characteristics, their specific changes during storage, the principles and fundamental in vivo and in vitro methods of tracer techniques. The preparation of 125I-labelled compounds and basic autoradiographic technique will be specified. A second experiment will be carried out on tracer experiment using autoradiographic technique.3. Radiation protection: This will involve the basic biological responses to radiation, the national laws, the regulations about the applications of radio-isotopes with emphasis on the protection principle in biomedical research laboratory, and disposal of radioactive wastes. 4. Radioligand binding assay: Basic principle and the methodology of the chief types of radioligand binding assay. An experiment will be carried out covering the saturation analysis and competitive binding assay.5. Ultra-micro assays of bioactive compounds: Basic principle and fundamental techniques of radio-immunoassay, immuno-radiometric assay and other ultra-micro assay techniques derived from radio-immunoassay and immuno-radiometric assay. An experiment will be carried out for radio-immunoassay. 6. Applications of radio-isotope tracer techniques in cell biology and molecular biology: in addition to a general description, emphasis will be put on certain selected topics such as phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins studied with 32P or 33P, coupling to G proteins to receptors studied with 35S, labeled compounds in the study of DNA and protein interaction.7. In the last section of this course, each student will be requested to make the design of an isotope experiment for his/her own thesis so as to combine the knowledge obtained from the above lessons." |