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Causes of Disease Overview
What are some causes of disease,
What do you call a condition with...,
What are the 2 categories in whic...
9
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Mechanisms of Disease I: Cell growth and cell differentiation
What are the basic mechanisms res...,
What are the two main forms of ce...,
What is common between cell growt...
19
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Mechanisms of Disease II: Cell Damage and Cell Death
What is the function of necrosis,
What are the causes of necrosis,
What are the steps of necrosis
20
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Mechanisms of Disease During Embryogenesis
In human development what are the...,
What are the overall stages an eg...,
Annotated images of a fertilised ...
15
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Stem cells and regenerative medicine
What are stem cells,
What do each of the 3 germ layers...,
Tissue specific stem cells are ma...
14
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Overview of Genomic Technologies in Clinical Diagnostics
List some examples of genomic tec...,
What are the key points of polyme...,
What are the key points of fragme...
17
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Cell Culture Techniques
Name some characteristics of prim...,
What are examples of methods of i...,
What are some examples of non hae...
20
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Flow Cytometry - Introduction and Applications
What is flow cytometry,
What can a flow cytometer tell us...,
As well as flow cytometry as a me...
16
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Microscopy
What is microscopy,
What determines the resolution of...,
What does light microscopy aim to do
8
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Liquid Biopsies
What is a liquid biopsy,
What 2 types of information can w...,
How do you collect a liquid biopsy
12
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Nutritional Anaemias
What is anaemia,
What does the maturation of red b...,
Why is there not enough haemoglob...
18
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Haemolytic Anaemias
What is anaemia and what is haemo...,
What constitutes the normal red b...,
What happens in haemolysis
23
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Lab Investigation of The Full Blood Count and White Cell Disorders
Where does blood cell production ...,
Outline haematopoiesis,
What makes up a full blood count fbc
4
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Disorders of Blood Coagulation
Why is it important blood clots,
What does primary haemostasis and...,
Describe some details of primary ...
21
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Numerical Chromosomal Abnormalities
What structure is most important ...,
At which stage of meiosis are sis...,
Which part of meiosis is similar ...
12
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Structural chromosomal abnormalities
Name some examples of structural ...,
What is translocation,
What are the consequences of reci...
25
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Inborn Errors of Metabolism
What are inborn errors of metabol...,
Who is viewed as the father of in...,
What is alkaptonuria
16
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Congenital Diseases Associated with Central Nervous System
What is the first step in the for...,
What does the ectoderm give rise to,
What does the mesoderm give rise to
14
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
Intro to lecture,
What is neurodegeneration and neu...,
What are some basic details about...
24
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Mechanisms of Oncogenesis
What is cancer,
How does evidence suggest that ca...,
How do tumour cells arise evolve ...
21
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Diabetes and Hypoglycaemia
How are blood glucose levels main...,
Why should glucose levels be regu...,
What is diabetes mellitus
20
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Oncogenes and Tumour Suppressor Genes
What have tumour cells lost their...,
What major functional changes occ...,
What do oncogenes do normally and...
24
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Tumour Angiogenesis, Invasion & Metastasis
What are the characteristics of m...,
What are the key steps in cancer ...,
What is the definition of angioge...
15
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Clinical cancer genetics
What are some differences between...,
What are some differences between...,
What do we mean by multifactorial...
10
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Introduction to Leukaemia
What is leukaemia,
What is haematopoiesis,
What are haematopoietic stem cells
16
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Introduction to Lymphomas and Myeloma
What is lymphoma,
What are the main functions of th...,
What are primary and secondary ly...
19
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Introduction to Hormone-Dependent Cancers: Breast and Prostate Cancer
What is a hormone,
What 3 classes can hormones be gr...,
What are all steroid hormones syn...
42
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Endocrine Disorders
What does thyroid hormone produce...,
What effects can hypo hyperthyroi...,
What do the adrenal glands sit on...
6
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Calcium and phosphate metabolism
What is osteoporosis and what can...,
How is osteoporosis diagnosed,
What do endocrine causes of osteo...
10
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Bacterial Pathogens and Disease I - Exotoxins
What are the definitions of patho...,
What are exotoxins,
What mechanisms can determine vir...
20
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Bacterial Pathogens and Diseases II (Endotoxins)
What components make up endotoxins,
What are the characteristics of a...,
What is sepsis
9
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Viral Pathogens: Classification, Biology, Diseases I
How are viruses grouped how can t...,
What is the structure of a mature...,
To make proteins required which 3...
8
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Viral Pathogens: Classification, Biology, Diseases II
What happens once viral particles...,
Describe a typical course of hiv ...,
Why is immunodeficiency advantage...
8
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Parasitology
What are parasites how many main ...,
What are protozoa,
What are protozoa classified by
16
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Pathogenesis of Parasitic Infections
What are the 3 main species of sc...,
What is schistosomiasis cercarial...,
What is pathology caused by in he...
8
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Mechanism of Viral Infection and Pathogenesis
How many human herpes viruses are...,
How does virus infection of a hos...,
What do we know about the immunop...
7
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Diagnosis of Viral Infections
Key concepts of diagnosing of vir...,
What are some examples of possibl...,
What can viruses be visualised wi...
17
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Systems for Detection of Pathogens I and II
How can we define a pathogen,
What are some advantages and disa...,
What types of media are there for...
10
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Mechanism of Antivirals
Why do we need anti virals,
How can we use antivirals what ca...,
What principle concept is importa...
26
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10 Quiz questions to test knowledge from bacterial toxins lectures to antivirals(ie the last few lectures)
Pathogens have the ability to cau...,
What pathogen recognition recepto...,
Hiv 1 specifically infects a smal...
10
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Antibiotics
What are antibiotics,
What do we mean by selective toxi...,
What does a loss of flora lead to...
25
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Antibiotic Resistance
Why is antibiotic resistance a co...,
Describe some mechanisms of antib...,
What overall are the 3 main mecha...
8
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Molecular and Genomic Epidemiology of Infections
What types of mutations are there,
What is drift what is antigenic d...,
What factors can affect the speed...
4
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Review of The Innate Immune System
What is the difference between in...,
How does pattern recognition occu...,
What are pattern recognition rece...
13
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Overview of The Adaptive Immune System
What are the key points to the ad...,
Why have adaptive immune responses,
How can we spot a pathogen
9
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T cell development - Generation of receptor repertoire diversity
What events occur in lymphocyte d...,
What can multipotent haematopoiet...,
What 2 kinds of mature t cells ca...
25
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T cell Development - Receptor repertoire selection and CD4/CD8 lineage commitment
Where do t cells come from,
What happens in hassall s corpuscle,
Talk about the pathway of thymocy...
19
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T cell activation and generation of effector T cells
Summary of relevant concepts so far,
What professional antigen present...,
To be fully activated and differe...
15
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Humoral Immunity; Antibodies and the life cycle of B cells
What are antibodies made by,
What is the overall structure of ...,
What are the different classes of...
33
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Antibacterial responses
What are some features of bacteri...,
Do all bacteria cause disease,
What are some general features of...
14
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Microbial Immune Evasion Mechanisms
What do virulence factors do,
What is the complement system,
In what ways can pathogens overco...
6
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Natural Born Killers: NK Cells and CD8+ T Lymphocytes
What is the origin of natural kil...,
What is the role of cytotoxic lym...,
What is the role of cytotoxic t c...
25
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Transplantation and Immunosuppressive Drugs
What is autologous syngeneic allo...,
What is the link between major hi...,
What is the importance of epitope...
19
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Hypersensitivity reactions (asthma and allergy)
What is hypersensitivity and what...,
What is the arthus reaction and w...,
What is the serum sickness
15
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Autoimmunity
What are some examples of some or...,
What is autoimmunity,
What is immune tolerance what is ...
10
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Immunodeficiencies
What is immunodeficiency,
What characterises primary congen...,
What characterises secondary immu...
15
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Immunotherapy for Cancer
How are cancer cells different fr...,
What does tumour immunosurveillan...,
What term replaces immunosurveill...
4
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Scientific Basis of Vaccines
What do vaccine adjuvants do,
What types of vaccines are there,
What is conjugation and how does ...
4
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Vaccines - Bacterial & Viral
What do we know about haemophilus...,
What do we know about diphtheria,
Why is a new vaccine needed every...
4
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Immunology in The Clinic and Research Lab
What are immunoassays,
How are antibodies antigens labelled,
What do we know about solid phase...
9
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