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Notes on the topic of medical imaging for a cellular pathology module taught on the third year of a biomedical science degree. These notes discuss; x-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound imaging modalities, covering the principles,application, advantages and disadvantages of each imaging technique.

Notes discussing the efficacy of vaccination programmes using the smallpox vaccinne, the polio vaccine, the MMR vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine, as examples. These notes are for a clinical microbiology module taught in the third year of a biomedical science degree.

Notes on the topic of epidemiology for a clinical microbiology module taught in the third year of a biomedical science degree. Notes cover basic epidemiological definitions including; prevalence, incidence, emerging diseases, re-emerging diseases, case fatality rate, and mortality rate. The notes discuss what defines a case as well as notifiable diseases. Mathematical models in epidemiology are discussed, including attack rate, basic reproduction rate, and net reproductive rate.

Notes on the topic of oxidative stress and its role in kidney injury for a cellular pathology module taught in the third year of a biomedical science degree. These notes cover; free radicals, cellular defence mechanisms against free radicals, the generation of free radicals, and the toxic effects of free radicals. In addition, these notes cover acute and chronic kidney disease. These notes discuss renal ischaemia-perfusion injury and pharmacological treatment of renal ischaemia-perfusion injury....

Notes covering the topic of toxins produced by microorganisms to aid in survival and in defence against the host immune system. This topic is taught in a clinical microbiology module on the third year of a biomedical science degree. These notes cover the mechanisms of action of the toxins produced by microorganisms, and human diseases caused by such toxins, including; botulism, tetanus, cholera, shigellosis, and food-poisoning.

Detailed notes on immune response to infectious disease and cancer for a clinical immunology module taught in the third year of a biomedical science degree course. These notes cover; septic shock, toxic shock, superantigens, bacterial evasion mechanisms to host immune responses, immune response to viral infection, programmed cell death protein, cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4, T cell exhaustion, regulatory T cells, and viral evasion mechanisms to host immune responses. These notes also cover th...

Notes on the topic of infection in compromised host for a clinical microbiology module taught on the third year of a biomedical science degree course. Notes cover fungal and parasitic infections in compromised hosts.

Notes for a clinical mircobiology module taught in the third year if a biomedical science degree. These detailed notes cover; biology, epidemiology, routes of transmission, pathogenesis, treatment and prevention, of blood bourne viral infections, using hepatitis B virus and HIV as examples.

Notes of the tumour microenvironment for a cellular pathology module in the third year if a biomedical science degree course. These notes cover; the tumour microenvironment, myeloid derived suppressor cells, tumour associated macrophages, regulatory T cells in the tumour microenvironment, extracellular vesicles and their role in the tumour microenvironment, and cancer associated fibroblasts.

Notes on inflammation and cancer for cellular pathology module taught in the third year of a biomedical science degree. The notes cover; cancer-enabling inflammation, evidence that inflammation promotes cancer, inflammation dependent tumour promotion, and chronic inflammation and cancer.