Comparative Histology and Embryology II

Code:

MA216

Acronym:

HEC_II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	General and Aquatic Biology

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S (of 16-11-2015 to 15-01-2016)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Microscopy
Course/CS Responsible:	Aquatic Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCMA	40	Plan 2012 to 2017	2	-	5	49	135

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

In the continuation of the unit of Histology and Embryology Comparative I provide theoretical and practical knowledge about the structure of cells, tissues and organs (now in recent emphasis), the microscopic level, particularly optics, but sometimes at TEM level, and the respective histophysiology. Thus, the bases of knowledge and skills promoted to a better understanding of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Pathology, etc. The practical component is based on the study of preparations of normal tissues and organs, directly to the optical microscope or indirectly, via his pictures taken by digital means.

It is also intended to demonstrate the importance of knowing and applying the normal histology of tissues and organs in the face of potential modifications of the same, as well as encourage students to make a morphofunctional integration of acquired knowledge and acquire, and use your creativity in interpretation of results of scientific projects, multidisciplinary components that histological or embryological.

Finally, we aim to teach complementary bases of general and special embryology, now with emphasis on the latest, encompassing aspects of descriptive and developmental biology and studies aiming to model organisms (vertebrates). It is intended to provide students with knowledge to understand the structure and the normal organogenesis and placement of organs and tissues in the adult animal. It is also intended that students have the ability to discern the possible events that may cause teratological changes.

Learning outcomes and competences

Having the ability to observe systematically describe the microscope and diagnose or before histological images, tissues and organs of vertebrates above (from fish to mammals), as well as to know predict / correlate its characteristics from histophysiology structural and dyeing.

It is intended that students obtain the basic principles of developmental biology and embryology descriptive, with an overview of embryological development in comparative terms, integrating this knowledge with the systematic anatomy and microanatomy of the adult. It is also intended that students have the ability to discern the possible events that may cause teratological cases.

Being aware of the importance of full implementation of whether the histology and embryology of normal tissues and organs in the face of potential changes therein. Enhance the student's ability to make a morphofunctional integration of acquired knowledge, and use your creativity in interpreting works that integrate histological component / embryological.

Increment of competence for the presentation and critical evaluation of issues related to Histology and Embryology Compared.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Skin (thin, thick) and skin appendages (glands, hair, scales). Breathing apparatus (conductive and respiratory portions; lungs and gills). Swim bladder. Digestive tract (mouth, teeth, tongue, regions of the gut). Accessory digestive glands (salivary glands and their variants, pancreas, liver and gall bladder). Sense organs (eye, olfactory apparatus, lateral line system, stat-acoustic organ). Endocrine glands (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, corpuscles of Stannius, ultimobranchial gland, caudal neurosecretory system and urophysis, endocrine pancreas, chromaffin cells and interrenal tissue adrenal gland, pineal gland). Urinary system (kidney of mammals and fish, urinary tract). Male reproductive system (testicles, variations in fish). Female reproductive tract (ovaries, variations in fish). Histomorphology of bivalves. Intro to the environmental regulation of development. Comparative aspects of embryonic development of vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals).

Mandatory literature

Luiz C Junqueira e José Carneiro; Histologia Básica (12ª Edição), Guanabara Koogan (Grupo GEN), 2013. ISBN: 9788527723114
Carlos Gonçalves, Vasco Bairos; Histologia. Texto e Imagens (4ª Edição), Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2013. ISBN: 978-989-26-0671-2
Franck Genten, Eddy Terwinghe, Andre Danguy; Atlas of Fish Histology, Science Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 1578085446
Scott F. Gilbert; Developmental Biology (10th Edition), Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2013. ISBN: 978-0-87893-978-7

Complementary Bibliography

Anil B. Amin, Liisa Mortensen & Trygve T. Poppe; HISTOLOGY ATLAS: NORMAL STRUCTURE OF SALMONIDS, Akvapatologisk Laboratorium AS, Bodø, Norway, 1992. ISBN: 82-992406-1-1
Frederick W. Harrison and Alan J. Kohn; Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates: Mollusca II (Volume 6A), Wiley-Liss, 1997. ISBN: 0-471-15447-4
JA Holden, LL Layfield & JL Matthews; The Zebrafish: Atlas of Macroscopic and Microscopic Anatomy, Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN: 1107621348
LP Gartner & JL Hiatt; Atlas Colorido de Histologia (6ª Edição), Grupo GEN, 2014. ISBN: 9788527725187
Scott E. Gilbert & Anne M. Raunio; Embryology: Constructing the Organism., Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 0-87893-237-2

Comments from the literature

The teachers deliver a Manual of Practical Classes (Edition 2014)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical lectures.
Interactive lectures.
Practical lessons.
Performance of activities that promote planing, self learning and search for new research updates.

keywords

Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biology > Histology
Natural sciences > Biological sciences > Biology > Developmental biology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	35,00
Participação presencial	5,00
Teste	40,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	15,00
Estudo autónomo	70,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Total:	134,00

Eligibility for exams

As to the Law (See regulation of the U.Porto); the student must attent a minimum of 3/4 of all the lectures.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification is the following weighted average of 4 components:

Note the theoretical exam x 0.35 + Note the practical test x 0.40 + Papers x 0.20 x + Participation x 0.05

Each component is graded in the general scale of 0 to 20.

Participation, which rewards attendance, level of commitment, and even the quality of performance of each student during the lessons, you can reach a maximum of 1 point (after ponderation). Each article will be quoted up to 2 values (after ponderation).

The student will be approved if it can discipline the minimum values of 9.50, after applying the above formula.

Note 1: The minimum passing grade for the written exam (multiple choice) and for the practical test is of 9.5 points, in each exam.

Note 2: students who do not participate in the presentation of scientific articles, without being for an unexpected and serious reason (illness, accident, etc.), will nto only have their rankings on this component be of 0 points, but also will have a 50% penalty on the grade for participation.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Critical presentation of two (2) papers (original and not review papers) to include a component of Histology and / or embryology. The same will be done using digital and video projector.

The duration of each presentation is 7 (SEVEN) minutes, followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The students who make presentations in English will have a bonus of up to 25% of the grade of the Papers (ie, until further 5 out of 20).

Work will be performed in groups, of four to six students, being drawn at the time of presentation which group members will present the work.

Students not chosen for presenters can be called to answer any questions. Students will do a self-assessment of their level of participation in the preparation of articles.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Special examination will be available to all students who have legally entitled to it, on a date to be announced by the Regent, in accordance with the practice in force in ICBAS. Note however that any particular exae (T or TP) can be of a different nature from that applied in normal time or resource (eg, having a lower extension may be oral character, etc.).

Classification improvement

All students that are entitled by law to special examinations will perform them upon official request, in a date announced by the responsible teacher, in accordance with the rules of the ICBAS. There is no place for process improvement in the paper presentations, unless the student goes back to attend classes and integrate a new working group (of a new schoolar year).

Observations

If the student does not get final approval in a given school year, the grades achieved in the various partial evaluation components may transit times to and / or following school years, a situation that must be confirmed with the conductor at the beginning of each school year. However, the Regent reserves the right not to take previous effort where there is no possibility of recovery, given the changes taking place in the type of course evaluation. If there is partial transport notes, the student is subject to the evaluation formula CURRENT school year.

At a certain time of examinations, the student graduates may choose to perform one final exam (the theoretical or theoretical-practical), BUT IT IS REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO SURVEY OF REGISTRATION THAT THE REGENT MAY IMPLEMENT.