Functional Histology

ANAT 309, Functional Histology, is designed to introduce students to the field of mammalian histology, or microscopic anatomy. Histology is a branch of the anatomical sciences that deals with the study of the structure and functions of normal tissues and cells of the body.

Much of what is known today about the tissues and cells of the body comes from classical light microscopy. However, the advent of electron microscopy in the 1950s and the availability of other procedures in electron microscopy (such as freeze-fracture technique and scanning electron microscopy) have added tremendous information to the knowledge of the structure of tissues and cells at the ultrastructural level. Advances made in other microscopic techniques, both at the light and electron microscopic levels such as radioautography, immunofluorescence, cytochemistry, immunohistochemistry, and in situ hybridization) have helped further understand the structure-function relation of various organelles within the cell.

Throughout the course modules, students will be introduced to the histology of many of the body's tissues and organs with particular emphasis on structure-function relationships at the cell and tissue level.    Cross listed with  BMED 831 Functional Histology

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