Course Description & Objectives:
- Theory and practical principles, techniques in histology, Histochemistry, Histopathology and Electron Microscopy will be presented and discussed. Cell Biology, Ultrastructure and organization of cell organelles, Cell compartmentation. Cytoskeleton and cell motility
- Stains and principles, Common stains, staining, fixation embedding sectioning, histochemical and frozen sections. Mixing solutions and fixatives.
- Processing and embedding, blocking sectioning, sharpening, histochemical and frozen sections.
- Principles of electron microscopy.
- Principles of selected stains.