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Course code: VVSS00158f12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Physiological bases of gastroenterology and hepatology
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Romański
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student knows better the structural-functional relationships regarding more and less known gastrointestinal functions, hepatic bile formation and role and functions of biliary tract including the gall-bladder. Furthermore, the student knows the specific situations at the border of physiology and pathology within the discussed topics and is able in part to deduce the circumstances and conditions in which the local and systemic homeostatic barriers as well as adaptation mechanisms can be fatigued or crossed what can lead to the beginning of pathological process. This elective supplements the general medical, medical and veterinary medical knowledge in the scope of gastroenterology and hepatology. Student knows the conditions and circumstances that can lead to the given disturbances in this area of knowledge.
Competences: Student is prepared to independent medical deduction in the scope of the elective, thus he is well prepared to participate in the preclininal and then clinical disciplines, namely pathophysiology, clinical diagnostics, internal medicine. Student possessing the distended physiological knowledge obtained from this elective, is able to imagine better the possible circumstances and development of pathological status and its course. This knowledge will facilitate to make the correct diagnosis of the rare cases in this scope after learning of clinical disciplines. Te student will thus be better prepared for further studies.
Prerequisites: Animal Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Animal Histology and Embryology, Animal Nutrition, Animal Physiology
Course content: Local homeostasis in the gastrointestinal tract, deteiled motor function and othe functions of the gastrointestinal tract, biliary functions including motor sphincter functions, malnutrition and other mistakes and their influences on the gastrointestinal and biliary functions with the possibilities of occurrence of functional disturbances; functional tests in the scope of the elective.
Recommended literature: 1. Ed.: N. V. Anderson. Veterinary Gastroenterology. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia 1992. 2. Ed.: Ettinger 3. C. E. Stevens, I. D. Hume. Comparative Physiology of the Vertebrate Digestive System. Cambridge University Press 1995. 4. Ed.: L. R. Johnson. Physiology of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Elsevier, Amsterdam 2006. 5. Cunningham 6. Eds: M. C. Champion, W. C. Orr. Evolving Concepts in Gastrointestinal Motility. Blackwell Science, Oxford 1996. 7. Ed.: T. S. Gaginella. Handbook of Methods in Gastrointestinal Pharmacology. CRC Press, Boca Raton 1996. 8. Ed.: R. N. Ratnaike. Small Bowel Disorders. Arnold, London 2000.
Assessment methods: Oral test
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