PP3151 - General Pathobiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences

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 27-Mar-2009
Coord/Lect:	Professor Phillip Summers.
Contact hours:	35 hours lectures 36 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (70%); other exams (25%); assignments (5%).

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