PP3203 - Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| Administered by: | School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences |
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 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 28-Aug-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Phillip Summers |
| Lecturers: | Professor Lee Fitzpatrick, Professor Phillip Summers. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (65%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (25%). |
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