Unit BIOMEDICAL VISION LABORATORY

Course
Optics and optometry
Study-unit Code
A002511
Location
TERNI
Curriculum
Optometria
Teacher
Marina Maria Bellet
Teachers
  • Marina Maria Bellet
Hours
  • 47 ore - Marina Maria Bellet
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2023
Offered
2024/25
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
MED/46
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Knowledge of the scientific method and guidelines of good clinical practice (GCP); knowledge of the main fields of instrumental and laboratory diagnostics relating to diseases associated with vision. Techniques and methods of research laboratories for otpometric studies. Animal and cellular experimental models.
Reference texts
- Mauro Macarrone. Metodologie biochimiche e biomolecolari. Zanichelli 1° Edizione.

Support material projected during the lessons in electronic format will be available on Unistudium.
Educational objectives
To acquire knowledge and laboratory diagnostic techniques for the pathologies responsible for vision alterations. Ability to understand the scientific method and research protocols and study designs.
Prerequisites
In order to understand and to know to tackle the majority of the information given within the Course, you must have basic knowledge of Biology.
Teaching methods
Face-to-face lectures with audiovisual material on all subjects of the Course.
Learning verification modality
The exam consists of an oral test with a duration depending on the performance of the test itself (about 20 minutes, 2 questions). The test aims at evaluate the level of knowledge and understanding achieved by the student. In particular, it will be evaluated the acquisition of knowledges relatively to the main experimental laboratory activities in both diagnostic and research fields (1st question) and their applications in the field of vision pathologies (2nd question).

For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page
http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Extended program
- Use of basic instruments in the laboratory
- Concept of GCP and GCLP
- Methods and techniques of microbiology
- Diagnostic methodologies of pathology
- Diagnostic methods of immunohematology and clinical analysis
- Basic research in the optometric field
- Laboratory methodologies in the field of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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