Environmental Health Sciences 616

This course will provide an introduction to the histologic damage produced by chemical toxicants.  A combination of lectures, student-led discussions and slide-reading sessions will be used in integrate concepts of toxicological mechanism, physiology and pathologic outcome.  Emphasis will be placed on molecular methods and mechanisms used for the diagnosis and investigative toxicological pathology.  The pathology associated with chemicals that damage the major organ systems of humans and mammals will be discussed.