James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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PP3151:03

General Pathobiology

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: TV3022

24 lectures, 36 hours practicals. First semester.

Staff: Professor P Summers.

Mechanisms of disease processes are addressed. Thus, the general principles of pathobiology are covered with particular reference to the different causes and mechanisms of disease.

Learning Objectives:

  1. understand how cells respond to injury of diverse type;
  2. appreciate at the cellular level the difference between cell degeneration and death, and adaption of cells to an altered extracellular environment;
  3. describe the cellular changes that occur in such states as genetic disorders, inflammation, immunopathology and neoplasia;
  4. describe in general terms the procedures routinely used in diagnostic pathology.

Assessment by attendance at practical classes and related examination (25%); material presented in lectures (70%); assignment (5%).


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