Biomedical Laboratory techniques

Concept of health and disease. Concept of etiology and pathogenesis. Environmental pathology: chemical and physical causes; thermal, electrical and radiation-induced pathology. Generality of genetic and molecular disorder. Inflammation: acute and chronic inflammation. Fever. Alterations of proliferation and cell differentiation. Key features of the tumor cell. Carcinogenesis. Invasiveness and metastasis. Criteria for the classification of the tumors and tumor markers.

Basic knowledge of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology.

G.M. Pontieri – Elementi di patologia generale - ed. Piccin

mandatory attendance

Oral test

frontal teaching