, Table of Contents
CASE 1: THE DEVELOPING NERVOUS SYSTEM .................................................................................................4
CASE 2: LUNGS .....................................................................................................................................................19
CASE 3: BONES .....................................................................................................................................................39
CASE 4: MUSCLES ................................................................................................................................................54
CASE 5: HORMONES AND PUBERTY..................................................................................................................70
CASE 7: AGEING AND MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION ................................................................................85
CASE 8: MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION PART 2 ....................................................................................... 103
CASE 9: PHYSICAL DISABILITY ........................................................................................................................ 113
CASE 10: ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE .................................................................................................................... 128
CASE 11: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE - COPD .......................................................... 139
CASE 12: CANCER.............................................................................................................................................. 154
, Case 1: the developing nervous system
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Learning goals:
1. How does brain development start? What is neurulation?
a. Repetition from last year
b. (prenatal) brain and spinal development
c. Figure 1
2. What are the different types of brain/neural cells and how do they develop?
a. Migration, proliferation, differentiation
b. What is the role of NOTCH signalling in neural stem cell differentiation?
3. How are synapses formed?
a. Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
b. > similarities and differences
4. How do synapses communicate?
a. Neurotransmitters
b. Synaptic plasticity
c. Long-term potentiation/depression
5. What is neurotrophic signalling?
a. Figure 3
6. When (and how) do functional brain areas develop?
a. Figure 4
7. How is the nervous system maintained and how does it deal with damage?
a. Neurogenesis
b. Central nervous system
c. Peripheral nervous system
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