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17826

MEDSCI 701

: Special Studies in Medical Science
2021 Semester One (1213)
The critical review and analysis of research literature relating to a research topic. Components include an extensive literature review article defining the current knowledge relevant to a particular research area, a research proposal outlining proposed Masters research topic and its significance, and a formal presentation of the proposal. Suitable for students intending to undertake a Masters thesis.
Subject: Medical Science
Restriction: MEDSCI 702, 744

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17827

MEDSCI 703

: Advanced Biomedical Imaging
2025 Semester One (1253)
Theory and practice of biomedical imaging from the sub-cellular to whole body level with specific emphasis on recent developments. Principles of digital image-processing and image analysis (including quantitative morphology), computed tomography and volume rendering and analysis. Imaging modalities including atomic force microscopy, light and confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray, CT, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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17828

MEDSCI 703

: Advanced Biomedical Imaging
2024 Semester One (1243)
Theory and practice of biomedical imaging from the sub-cellular to whole body level with specific emphasis on recent developments. Principles of digital image-processing and image analysis (including quantitative morphology), computed tomography and volume rendering and analysis. Imaging modalities including atomic force microscopy, light and confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray, CT, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17829

MEDSCI 703

: Advanced Biomedical Imaging
2023 Semester One (1233)
Theory and practice of biomedical imaging from the sub-cellular to whole body level with specific emphasis on recent developments. Principles of digital image-processing and image analysis (including quantitative morphology), computed tomography and volume rendering and analysis. Imaging modalities including atomic force microscopy, light and confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray, CT, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17830

MEDSCI 704

: Stem Cells and Development
2021 Semester One (1213)
Stem cell biology and the genetic regulation of developmental processes will be examined in normal and disease settings. Blood, immunity, vascular networks and the kidney will be used as systems to explore important concepts in organ development and regeneration. This knowledge will be applied in understanding disease processes such as leukaemia, inflammation and kidney disorders, and in designing new therapeutic strategies.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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17831

MEDSCI 705

: Infection, Immunity and Disease
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Examines the ways in which host immune mechanisms control infection, infectious organisms evade host defence mechanisms, and the consequences of these processes for the host. Examples of human infectious diseases will include: HIV, hepatitis B, influenza, tuberculosis and streptococcal infections. Consideration of the consequences of infection will incorporate discussion of immune self/non-self discrimination, immune tolerance and autoimmune mechanisms, including the impact of response against infections on autoimmunity.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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17832

MEDSCI 706

: Genomic Medicine
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Examines a range of medical genetic disorders that illustrate principles of disease mechanisms, diagnosis and management. These will include: haemophilia, familial cancer, late-onset neurological disorders and mitochondrial disease.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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17833

MEDSCI 706

: Genomic Medicine
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Examines a range of medical genetic disorders that illustrate principles of disease mechanisms, diagnosis and management. These will include: haemophilia, familial cancer, late-onset neurological disorders and mitochondrial disease.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17834

MEDSCI 710

: Nutrition Mechanisms
2023 Semester Two (1235)
The mechanisms by which food and food components can influence disease processes. Topics covered include: the interaction between genotype and nutrition, antioxidants and oxidation protection mechanisms, dietary toxicology, the process of atherosclerosis, and the influence of the intra-uterine environment on growth and disease.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17835

MEDSCI 712

: Critical Evaluation of Nutritional Therapies
2023 Semester Two (1235)
The suggested roles for micronutrients, 'nutriceuticals' and functional foods in general health, exercise performance and disease are evaluated using an evidence-based approach. The roles of micronutrients as dietary supplements and the potential actions of nutriceuticals and functional foods are also critically evaluated. Regulatory and ethical issues in the use of nutritional remedies are considered, including their use as supplements in chemotherapy or other conventional therapies, or in individuals with no symptoms.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17836

MEDSCI 718

: Pharmacology of Anaesthetics and Analgesics
2021 Semester One (1213)
General aspects of anaesthetics and analgesics. Topics covered include the development of modern anaesthesia, the mechanisms of action of drugs used in general and local anaesthesia, and issues surrounding safety and efficacy of anaesthesia, including drug error and circadian variation in drug action.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17837

MEDSCI 718

: Pharmacology of Anaesthetics and Analgesics
2020 Semester One (1203)
General aspects of anaesthetics and analgesics. Topics covered include the development of modern anaesthesia, the mechanisms of action of drugs used in general and local anaesthesia, and issues surrounding safety and efficacy of anaesthesia, including drug error and circadian variation in drug action.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17838

MEDSCI 723

: Cancer Pharmacology
2025 Semester Two (1255)
The pharmacological basis of the action of anti-tumour drugs relevant to human cancer therapy, emphasising the variability of chemotherapy effects, interactions between anti-cancer agents and early phase clinical trials.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17839

MEDSCI 723

: Cancer Pharmacology
2023 Semester Two (1235)
The pharmacological basis of the action of anti-tumour drugs relevant to human cancer therapy, emphasising the variability of chemotherapy effects, interactions between anti-cancer agents and early phase clinical trials.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17840

MEDSCI 723

: Cancer Pharmacology
2021 Semester Two (1215)
The pharmacological basis of the action of anti-tumour drugs relevant to human cancer therapy, emphasising the variability of chemotherapy effects, interactions between anti-cancer agents and early phase clinical trials.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17841

MEDSCI 729

: Perinatal Physiology and Medicine
2024 Semester One (1243)
Fetal development has long-term consequences for health. This advanced course offers a wide range of research themes relating to fetal development and future health. Topics include: placental development, fetal physiology, and endocrine regulation and metabolic function during fetal and postnatal life. The course explores pathogenesis of disease and injury of the fetus and newborn, and how biomedical research leads to potential clinical treatment strategies.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17842

MEDSCI 735

: Concepts in Pharmacology
2020 Semester One (1203)
Explores cellular and molecular mechanisms of drug action and drug discovery and development from the perspective of in silico modelling, biochemical assessment, intracellular signalling and human disease. Considers the pharmacokinetic processes involved in achieving clinically-relevant drug concentrations, the link between concentration and effect, the time course of effect and factors that may influence both clinical effectiveness and drug toxicity.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

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17843

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2025 Semester Two (1255)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17844

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2024 Semester Two (1245)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17845

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17846

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2022 Semester Two (1225)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17847

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2021 Semester Two (1215)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17848

MEDSCI 737

: Biomedical MRI
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Provides students with a thorough understanding of a range of biomedical MRI techniques as well as advanced clinical MRI applications such as functional imaging of the brain and cardiovascular system. Laboratories will cover MRI applications in basic science, and MRI applications in clinical medicine.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17849

MEDSCI 738

: Biological Clocks
2021 Semester Two (1215)
Chronobiology – the study of biological rhythms and the clocks that control them. Theory, anatomical location and molecular machinery of biological clocks will be covered, as will the control of rhythms of different time scales from days (circadian rhythms) to years (circannual rhythms). The influence the human circadian clock has on physiology and drug efficacy, and the effect hospitalisation has on the control of sleep cycles will be given special attention.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet

17850

MEDSCI 738

: Biological Clocks
2020 Semester Two (1205)
Chronobiology – the study of biological rhythms and the clocks that control them. Theory, anatomical location and molecular machinery of biological clocks will be covered, as will the control of rhythms of different time scales from days (circadian rhythms) to years (circannual rhythms). The influence the human circadian clock has on physiology and drug efficacy, and the effect hospitalisation has on the control of sleep cycles will be given special attention.
Subject: Medical Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions

Outline is not available yet