GENERAL PATHOLOGY
cod. 00768

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Patologia generale (MED/04)
Field
Scienze biologiche e psicologiche
Type of training activity
Basic
15 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: GENERAL PATHOLOGY

Learning objectives

Basic knowledge of mechanisms of response to tissue damage (inflammation, hemostasis, repair) and of their alterations. Elementary knowledge of cell death mechanisms and of basic features of tumor cell biology. Acquisition of terminological competences.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The topics covered during the lectures will be: 1. CELL PATHOLOGY: adaptation to cell damage; cell death through oncosis and apoptosis; basic biological features of tumor cells. 2. INFLAMMATION: Signs and phenomena of acute inflammation, mechanisms of exudate; phagocytosis; chronic inflammation and granulomas; abscesses; ulcers; chemical mediators of inflammation; systemic effects of inflammation; fever; excesses and defects in inflammatory response. 3. HEMOSTASIS AND BLOOD VESSELS DISEASES: primary and secondary hemostasis; hemorrhagic diseases; thrombosis, embolism, infarction; ischemic damage and excitotoxicity; atherosclerosis.

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />1. Spector e Axford, Introduzione alla Patologia Generale, CEA, Milano<br />2. Woolf, Patologia Generale: Meccanismi della malattia, Idelson -Gnocchi, Napoli

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