ORGAN MORPHOLOGY AND MICROSCOPY AND ELEMENTS OF EMBRYOLOGYModule MORFOLOGIA E MICROSCOPIA D'ORGANO
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: VELIA MARIA D'AGATAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course will provide to students the necessary skills for a full comprehension of the structural complexity of the human body and the relationship occurring between morphology and function. The aim of the microscopic anatomy course is to provide the knowledge regarding the microscopic structure of organs and the skills to carry out the structural differential analysis between them.The course will also provide basic notions on regenerative medicine and in particular regarding tissue engineering.
Course Structure
Lectures and laboratory exercises.
If the teaching will be carried out remotely or in mixed way, it could be introduced changes always respecting previous statements outlined in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
The lectures will provide notions of microscopic anatomy of the following organs:
- Heart and blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries)
- lymph nodes, lymphatic vessels, spleen, peyer plaques, thymus, bone marrow
- larynx, trachea, main bronchi and their branches, lungs, alveolus structure, pleura.
- pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver and pancreas.
- kidneys and excretory passages of urine.
- skin and skin appendages
- organization of nervous tissue
In addition, the course will provide basic notions on methods to organ processing for microscopic analysis. Some topics of regenerative medicine will also be discussed such as tissue engineering techniques
During the laboratory practice, students will assist to organs section preparation on slide and perform the differential analysis among them through optical or fluorescence microscopy analysis
Textbook Information
Conconi e Rumio Principi di Anatomia Microscopica con cenni di Istologia e Anatomia Macroscopica Editore EdiSES
Morroni Anatomia Microscopica Atlante Editore edi-ermes
Esposito Anatomia Microscopica con note funzionali e cliniche Editore EdiSES
Anatomia microscopica e diagnosi differenziale d’organo EDISES
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generalità sulla struttura degli organi | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 2 | Apparato cardiovascolare: il cuore | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 3 | Apparato cardiovascolare: i vasi e la circolazione | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 4 | Sistema linfatico e immunitario: linfonodi, vasi linfatici, milza, placche di peyer, timo, midollo osseo | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 5 | Apparato respiratorio: laringe, trachea, bronchi principali e loro ramificazioni, polmoni, struttura dell’alveolo, pleure. | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 6 | Apparato digerente: faringe, esofago, stomaco, intestino tenue, intestino crasso, fegato e pancreas. | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 7 | Apparato urinario: reni e vie escretrici dell’urina. | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 8 | Apparato tegumentario: cute e annessi cutanei | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 9 | Sistema Nervoso: organizzazione del tessuto nervoso | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 10 | metodi di preparazione degli organi per l'analisi microscopica | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
| 11 | nozioni base di medicina rigenerativa ed in particolare di tecniche di ingegneria tissutale | Testi consigliati e materiale didattico fornito dal docente |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
learning will be tested by a written exam. If the conditions request it, the verification will be carried out on microsoft teams.
Information for students with disabilities and / or SLD
To guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with the laws in force, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and / or dispensatory measures, based on the didactic objectives and specific needs. It is also possible to contact the CInAP contact person (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and / or SLD) of the Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
microscopic structure of the heart
microscopic structure of the vessels
microscopic structure of the stomach