PP3203 - Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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Physiological and cellular mechanisms controlling reproductive and endocrinological processes in humans, laboratory and domestic animals including hormone synthesis, adrenal and reproductive endocrinology, neuroendocrinology and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal interactions, sperm biology and fertilisation, embryonic development, uterine biology and pregnancy, parturition, the postpartum period, immunology of reproduction, the new reproductive technologies and environmental influences on reproduction.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate advanced concepts of endocrinology particularly as it relates to reproductive physiology and biology;
• appreciate current developments in understanding physiological processes involved in reproduction;
• appreciate the scientific basis for improving or controlling fertility in humans, domestic, and wild animals;
• describe the features of the reproductive organs and be able to assess sperm function, fertilisation and early embryonic development;
• understand the application of new reproductive technologies;
• understand the physiology and biology of reproduction in mammals, in particular the comparative similarities and differences between humans, laboratory and major domestic animals.

Prerequisites:	(BZ1020 and ZL1001) or (PP2101 and PP2201)
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	TV3072

Availabilities
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	tvpms
Lecturers:	tvlaf, tvpms.
Contact hours:	36 hours 13 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(65%); (10%); (25%).

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