- Docente: Elisabetta Caramelli
- Credits: 2
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
The student learns preliminary competences to help an interdisciplinary approach to the study of evidence based medicine. The student knows regulatory mechanisms of the first stages of the development.
Course contents
EMBRYOLOGY
Fertilization: sperm attraction, activation and penetration. Prevention of polyspermy.
Cleavage and the blastocyst stage. The trophoblast and the inner cell mass.
Implantation and decidual reaction. Two germ layer stage; yolk sac, amniotic cavity and extraembryonic celoma formations.
Gastrulation and the three embryonic germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm) and molecular processes. The neural crest cells.
Craniocaudal and lateral foldings. Formation of intraembryonic coelom.
Placenta and extraembryonic membranes: amniotic membrane, chorion and placenta, umbilical cord, allantois.
Endoderm derivatives: Facial and fharyngeal development.
Paraxial mesoderm derivatives: sclerotomes, myotomes and dermatomes.
Lateral mesoderm derivatives: limb development.
Nervous tissue development.
Readings/Bibliography
Embriologia Umana, Armato et al, Idelson Gnocchi ed
Embriologia Umana, Larsen, Idelson Gnocchi ed.
Embriologia , Barbieri-Carinci
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
The check consists of a preliminary proof at microscopy, for the identifications of histological tissues. If this proof is not sufficient, the examination does not progress.
The oral examination focuses on cytological, histological and embryological matter, according to the program of Istology and Embryology 1 and Histology and Embryology . The insufficence also in one of the three learning is not allowed.
In caso of negative result of the oral examination, the student may keep the result of the practice or make it again. The vote is valid until the appeals of december 2018.
The final votation, by determination of the Commission, considers the results obtained.
Teaching tools
Power point presentations that will be available online as downloadable content through a reserved distribution list.
Office hours
See the website of Elisabetta Caramelli