GENERAL PATHOLOGY
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The General Pathology course provides the students with the fundamentals of modern cellular and molecular pathology. The course deals with the investigation of those pathological mechanisms common to all tissue-cell pathology; etiology, pathogenesis, morphologic changes, functional derangements and clinical significance. Attention is paid to the processes of cellular adaptation, cell death, cellular accumulation, tissue repair, inflammation, immunology and immunopathology, and neoplasia.
The arguments include:
- Concepts of etiology, pathogenesis, morphological changes and functional alterations
- causes of cell damage and cellular adaptation, growth and differentiation; hypertrophy; hyperplasia; metaplasia; atrophy, necrosis and apoptosis
- Immunity and the immune system, the inflammatory response, innate and acquired immunity, vaccines, active and passive immunity
- Cancer: Cell cycle control, nomenclature and classes of cancers, benign and malignant tumors, physical, chemical and viral carcinogenesis, genetics and cancer, oncogenes and oncosuppressors, definition and epidemiological evidence for multi-stage carcinogenesis, metastasis.
- Concepts of Clinical Pathology
“G.M. PONTIERI: Elementi di PATOLOGIA GENERALE per i Corsi di Laurea in Professioni Sanitarie. Piccin