GENERAL ETIOLOGY Illness and health concept. Chemical, physical and biological agents as causes of disease. MECHANISMS OF RESPONSE TO CELL DAMAGE Cell adaptations (stress response, concepts of hyperplasia, hypertrophy, atrophy, metaplasia and neoplasia). Cell damage and death: necrosis and apoptosis. INFLAMMATION Causes of inflammation; acute inflammation; inflammation mediators; inflammation cells and their mobilization mechanism; oozing and exuding; defense mechanisms: complement and phagocytosis; chronic inflammation; systemic aspects of inflammation; the fever; notes on reparative processes. PRINCIPLES OF IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY Cellular and molecular components of innate and acquired immunity. Hypersensitivity reactions. Immunobiology and immunopathology ONCOLOGY Definition of neoplasm; causes of the onset of cancer. Oncogenes and their activation mechanisms; tumor suppressor genes and their inactivation mechanisms. The hereditary component in tumors; invasiveness and metastasis. PHYSIOPATHOLOGY OF THE HEART AND CARDIOCIRCULATORY SYSTEM Congenital anomalies of the heart and large vessels; cardiac arrhythmias. Hemorrhage; ischemia; hyperemia. Hypertension and hypotension; thrombosis

Students must possess adequate knowledge of anatomy, histology, biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, and physiology.

Elementi di Patologia generale - Per i corsi di laurea in Professioni Sanitarie IV Edizione. Piccin

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The teaching evaluation methods are characterized by exam sessions set in the scheduled sessions (2 for each session; plus some extraordinary sessions). The oral exam involves an assessment in which teachers will verify the learning of knowledge.

Frontal teaching activities, supplemented by discussion, audiovisual documents