PATOLOGIA GENERALE
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 4° YearCredit Value: 8
Scientific field: MED/04 - Experimental medicine and pathophysiology
Taught classes: 56 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
Provide all the scientific informations in the field of general pathology suitable for the preparation of the student for those materials which will be used after the completion of training
Detailed Course Content
-Introduction to General pathology
-Concept of homeostasis and disease
-Causes of phisical diseases
-Causes of chemical diseases
-Causes of biological diseases
-Cellular pathology
-Genetic pathology
-Inflammation: classification; types of exudate; chemical mediators of inflammation; chronic inflammation and granulomas; reparative phenomena
-The fever
-Aterosclerosis
-Filogenesis of the immune system
Cytokines
Antigen and antibody
Cells of the immune system
Complement
Oncology: classification of tumors, benign and malignant tumors. Tumor cell metabolism, viral oncogenesis, tumor metastasis thera
Textbook Information
Pontieri: Patologia Generale
Robbins: Patologia Generale
Rubin: Patologia generale