After successfully completing the course the student…
- …can describe and annotate the histology of the major human endocrine glands.
- …can schematically describe the synthesis pathways of peptide, steroid and amine hormones.
- …can schematically display stimulus-response schemes consisting of the stimuli for hormone release, target cells’ response and feedback of the major human hormone systems.
- …can use the histology and schematic displays mentioned under 1, 2 and 3 to explain simple clinical cases (pathologies, diagnostics, and therapies).
- … collect and categorise information obtained from different sources (lectures, labs, textbooks, review papers, internet) and write this up in their own words.
- …critically read and review colleagues’ written work.
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This is an intensive course that will require your active participation.
This course is intended for students reading Medical Biology and students reading Biology with a humane physiological interest.
You will build a personal "mini-syllabus" and write lecture abstracts. The goal of these exercises is, besides collating endocrinological information, to train general academic skills such as integrating and ordening information.
Quite a number of guest lecturers from the Radboudumc and elsewhere participate in the course and contribute their specific expertise.
The course programme can change from year to year (depending on lecturers' availability), but will contain at least:
- endocrinological concepts,mechanisms of hormone action
- endocrine gland histolog
- adrenal hormones (steroids, catecholamines)
- thyroid and thyroid hormones
- endocrine pancreas and diabetes
- endocrinology of male and female reproduction
- calcium-regulating hormones - osteoporosis
- growth and growth hormone
- hormones of the digestive tract
- hormones and tumours
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