Human Anatomy, Histology and Physiology I

Recommended Prerequisites

Basis of biology, physics and chemistry.

Teaching Methods

Evaluation: Final exam admittance: concerns to the student evaluation during the semester and depends on its assiduity, punctuality, attitudes on classes and on group work and manifested knowledge during the classes and evaluation moments. Final exam: written test about all subjects of the curricular unit and its pre-requisites. For curricular unit approval the student has to achieve 50% of the total quotation on this final exam. Final score = (Final exam admittance note + Final exame score) / 2

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this curricular unit is to give knowledge about integrative human morphophysiology, according to the course objectives to develop competencies and attitudes considered as very important in biomedical research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

0 – Presentation 1 – General Histology – tissue classification. Mechanisms of cellular differentiation, desdifferentiation and regeneration and its appliance on Physiology, Physiopathology and Regenerative biomedicine. Cellular and tecidular lesion and adaptative changes. 2 – Histotechnology – tissue preparation for light microscopy. 3 – Epithelial tissues: histology and histophysiology. 4 – Connective tissues: histology and histophysiology. 5 – Locomotor System: human anatomophysiology – anatomy and physiology of human locomotor system and its relationship with physiology, physiopathology and its appliance on biomedicine. 6 – Nervous System: human anatomophysiology – anatomy and physiology of human nervous system and its relationship with physiology, physiopathology and its appliance on biomedicine. 7 – Comparative morphophysiology – main morphofunctional differences between human and laboratory animals.

Head Lecturer(s)

Eduardo Leitão Costa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 10.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 20.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Livros e Monografias: / Text books: Gonçalves C, Bairos V. Histologia Texto e Imagens. Imprensa da Universidade, Coimbra, 2006; Frank H. Netter. Atlas of Human Anatomy, Icon Learning Systems, 2003; Mader. Understanding Human Anatomy & Physiology, Seventh Edition; Longenbaker, McGraw-Hill, 2011; VanPutte, Regan e Russo. Seeley’s Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology; Ninth Edition; McGraw-Hill, 2015; Artigos: / Articles: Cabrita AMS. Laboratorial Techniques for the Skeletal Muscle Fiber Identification. Molecular Physiology of Skeletal Muscle. 2005: 13-32 (Advanced Course of Molecular Physiology of Skeletal Muscle). Direcções na web: / Web resources: http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/histopage.htm http://www.siumed.edu/~dking2/index.htm http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html http://www.bartleby.com/107/ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anatomy.html http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072528303/