PP3151 - General Pathobiology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Physiology & Pharmacology |
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 Outcomes
- appreciate at the cellular level the difference between cell degeneration and death, and adaption of cells to an altered extracellular environment;
- describe in general terms the procedures routinely used in diagnostic pathology;
- describe the cellular changes that occur in such states as genetic disorders, inflammation, immunopathology and neoplasia;
- understand how cells respond to injury of diverse type.
| Prerequisites: | AT2110 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | PP5151 and TV3022 and PP3451 and TV5010 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Phillip Summers. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (70%); other exams (25%); assignments (5%). |
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