HISTOLOGY (BIOL-303)  

The objective of this course is to provide students with a more integrated perspective of how adaptations in physiology, biochemistry and morphology allow cells to become organized into the structural units that form organs, bones, skin, blood and support systems of both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Lecture topics will progress from basic cell structure into tissue and organ system and will introduce students to the exciting area of abnormal disease physiology, which is the core of both forensic medicine and pathology. Laboratory studies will allow students to see histology in action both visually and practically. They will be taught a variety of light microscopy techniques, which include selective tissue stains, immuno-histochemistry using monoclonal antibodies and analysis of prepared slides. In addition, they will learn to interpret and present abnormal histology in the form of “case histories” and will visit “working” histology laboratories to see how the subject is used.