75216 - General Pathology

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques (cod. 8487)

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course the student understands the main pathological mechanisms underlining human diseases

Course contents

Elements of General Pathology

  - Alteration of cellular homeostasis
- Damage to cellular components

Cellular Response to Damage

  -Autophagy
-Apoptosis
-Necrosis
-Senescence
-Atrophy
-Hyperplasia
-Metaplasia

Oncology

  -Tumor cell features
-Tumor progression
-Molecular genetics of tumor: oncogenes and suppressor genes

Hereditary Disease

  -Monogenic Disorders 
-Chromosomic Aberrations

Metabolic Diseases

  -Obesity
-Diabetes

Cardiovascular diseases

  -Atherosclerosis

Immunology

  -Immunitary response
-Vaccination

Readings/Bibliography

At the beginning of the integrated course (I.C.), students will receive indication on updated didactic materials produced in electronic format. These materials are stored on AMS Campus AlmaDL University of Bologna website: http://campus.unibo.it/ . Username and password are those given to each student of the University of Bologna.

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra lessons and practices on computers

Assessment methods

Multiple choice written test.

Teaching tools

Video (multimedial) and overhead projectors, computers and softwares. For slides, see AMS Campus.

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Garagnani