Medical biosciences - Study guides, Study notes & Summaries

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Cancer Biology (CBIO) module learning outcomes: - Define key terms relating to cancer (words to describe cancer and cancer-related processes) - Explain the differences between a normal cell and a cancer cell - Outline the risk factors for cancer, and identify which are most relevant to common cancers - Describe the different steps that are required for a metastatic cancer to arise - Name the 6 hallmarks of c...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Neuroscience (NEU) module. Learn what epilepsy is and what steps forward have been made in the management of the condition. Learning outcomes: - Identify the major neurotransmitters in the human nervous system and some of the main receptors. - Describe the etiology and presentation of epilepsy. - Explain the physiological basis of EEG and how it is used to assess seizures. - Analyse the different ty...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, cardiovascular and thoracic biology (CTB) module. Lecture 9 on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases: investigate what happens when homeostatic processes break down, thereby leading to disease. We will be looking at two respiratory diseases, namely asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and two cardiovascular diseases, namely atherosclerosis and pulmonary hypertension. Learning objectives: ...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Cancer Biology (CBIO) module. Covers the main concepts related to cancer immunobiology, why cancer is not a simple disease for our intrinsic defences to defeat, which are the markers that characterise it, how viruses can cause cancer, how our immune system reacts to cancer but also how cancer can evade it. learning outcomes: - concept of cancer immunobiology - describe tumour antigens expressed on cancer cell...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, cardiovascular and thoracic biology (CTB) module. Lecture 7 on cell biology of the cardiovascular system: how cellular components of the cardiovascular system help maintain vascular homeostasis. Homeostasis is a healthy state that is maintained by the constant adjustment of biochemical and physiological pathways. An example of homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant blood pressure in the human body. lear...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Neuroscience (NEU) module. Look at the development of the nervous system, with a focus on understanding the structural organisation of the brain and how new neurons and synaptic connections are formed. Learning objectives: LO1: Recognise which embryonic layer gives rise to the nervous system and summarise the formation of the neural tube and neural crest. LO2: Outline how the forebrain, midbrain and hindbra...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, genetics and genomics (GEN) module. Our DNA is under constant threat of being damaged by exogenous and endogenous insults. We have some mechanisms that provide protection from these insults, but there are limits to what they can achieve. In these notes, we consider how DNA damage arises, how it can be avoided, what it actually looks like, and how it is repaired. We also see how mutations in DNA repair genes are ass...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Neuroscience (NEU) module. The afferent (sensory) and efferent (motor) divisions of the nervous system provide vital information about our outside world and allow us to implement an appropriate behaviour. We will look at the sensory system in the first part of this module (a). learning outcomes: LO1: List and define the major somatosensory modalities. LO2: Explain the neurophysiological terms: receptor, st...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, Pharmacology module. PHAR 6, hypertension: treatments that are currently prescribed for hypertension, focusing on their pharmacodynamics to understand how these different drugs lower blood pressure and considering some of their side effects and important factors to consider when choosing treatment. - Explain the cardiovascular control of blood pressure and describe how it is measured - Classify the various stag...

Lecture notes from Imperial College London, Medical Biosciences BSc, 2nd year, genetics and genomics (GEN) module. Focus on nuclear chromosomes: learn how 2 metres of DNA is somehow packaged into these tiny chromosomes and understand some key features of chromosomes that determine their structure and function. Understand the differences between autosomes, sex chromosomes and mitochondrial chromosomes, and their association with disease. learning objectives: - Recall the changes in numbe...