00768 - General Pathology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Learning outcomes

Knowledge of general mechanisms underlying human diseases: natural and acquired immunity, neoplastic transformation, hemodynamic disorders.

Course contents

Aims and methods of general pathology

Natural immunity

Acute inflammation: exudate formation; fagocytosis. Chronic inflammatory reactions. Tissue repair.

 

Acquired immunity

Antibodies and humoral immunity. Cell-mediated immune reactions. Hypersensitivity reactions.

 

Neoplastic transformation

Characteristics of neoplastic tissues. Metastatic dissemination. Carcinogens.

Readings/Bibliography

M. Parola

Patologia Generale.

Casa Ed. EdiSES

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The final exam will be conducted orally and will aim to verify the achievement of educational objectives; more specifically, it will assess the student's knowledge of the basic mechanisms through which human diseases are generated. The student will be asked to discuss in depth one of the topics covered during the teaching course.

The final grade of the “Etiopathogenesis of diseases” course is the average of the grades obtained in the tests of General Pathology, Hygiene, Microbiology and Pathological Anatomy.

Teaching tools

Slide showing; use of personal computer

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppina Di Stefano