Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease: Online Course from OpenLearn

This free course, Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease, will help you understand the basic principles of light microscopy, before introducing you to histology, concentrating on the structure,...

Syllabus

- Week1Week 1: Histology
- Introduction
- 1 What is histology?
- 1.1 A histology department in action
- 1.2 How histological slides are produced
- 1.3 Staining techniques
- 1.4 Immunohistochemistry
- 1.5 Cells and tissues
- 2 Using a light microscope
- 2.1 Basic functions of the virtual microscope
- 2.2 Normal blood smear
- 2.3 Malaria
- 2.4 Considerations for interpreting sections
- 3 Measurements on the microscope
- 3.1 Observing different types of leukocyte
- 3.2 An example cell count
- 3.3 Acute myeloid leukaemia
- 3.4 Identify an abnormality – part I
- 3.5 Identify an abnormality – part II
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 1
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: Tissues and cells
- Introduction
- 1 Identifying cell types within tissues
- 1.1 Recognising common cell types
- 1.2 Histology of the skin
- 1.3 Skin sections
- 1.4 Histology of the gut
- 1.5 Epithelium in the gut
- 1.6 How the virtual microscope images were produced
- 2 Identifying tissues
- 2.1 Introduction to different tissues
- 2.2 Structure of a lymph node
- 2.3 Immunohistochemistry
- 2.4 Immunohistochemistry technique
- 2.5 Using IHC to identify B cells and T cells
- 3 Putting it into practice
- 4 Summary of Week 2
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: Tissue structure and function
- Introduction
- 1 Functions of tissues
- 1.1 Structure–function relationships
- 2 Tissue structure and functions
- 2.1 Secretion: functions of the breast
- 2.2 Movement: functions of muscle
- 2.3 Structure and strength: functions of bone and cartilage
- 2.4 Excretion: functions of the kidney
- 2.5 Histology of the kidney
- 2.6 Communication: functions of the nervous system
- 2.7 Normal tissues
- 3 This week’s quiz
- 4 Summary of Week 3
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: Recognising disease
- Introduction
- 1 Infection and inflammation
- 1.1 Infection
- 1.2 Inflammation
- 1.3 Histopathology for the diagnosis of disease
- 1.4 Infection
- 1.5 Identify an infection
- 2 Cell death and degeneration
- 2.1 Cell death in the CNS
- 2.2 Histopathology of the nervous system
- 3 Tumours
- 3.1 Metastasis
- 3.2 Neoplasia and hyperplasia
- 3.3 Put it into practice
- 4 End-of-course quiz
- 5 End-of-course summary
- Tell us what you think
- Acknowledgements

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