General Animal Pathology

Catalog description

This is a lecture-based course that will incorporate pictures and photomicrographs of gross and histologic lesions. This course primarily emphasizes the fundamental mechanisms of disease at the molecular, cellular, and tissue level, with less emphasis on the gross and clinical manifestations of disease. Students are expected to attend class and participate in class discussion. Specific subjects that will be presented include cellular injury and death, inflammation, blood coagulation, hemodynamic disorders, diseases of immunity, cellular adaptation, neoplasia, microbial mechanisms of disease, introduction to gross pathology, and pathology in practice. This course utilizes knowledge previously attained from courses in biology, microbiology, and immunology.