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| HIS5138 | Stereological Methods | 3+0+2 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of HISTOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures and 2 hours of laboratory per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To learn the basic stereological techniques addition to theoretical knowledge and practical application. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Be able to say history of stereological techniques | | | | PO - 2 : | Be able to say basic stereological techniques | | | | PO - 3 : | Be able to say sampling and systematic bias, and sampling strategy | | | | PO - 4 : | Be able to say number estimation, properties of the disector and the fractionator | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| History and basic stereological techniques
Basic stereological techniques
The instruments using stereological techniques
Sampling and Systematic bias
Sampling strategy
Number estimation methods
The rules of disector
The rules of fractionator |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | History of basic stereological techniques | | | Week 2 | Development of basic stereological techniques | | | Week 3 | Terminology of the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 4 | Sources of bias in ligh microscopy | | | Week 5 | Sampling and bias in the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 6 | Sampling strategy in the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 7 | Systematic sampling in the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 8 | Principles of stereology | | | Week 9 | Basic principles of the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 10 | The basic methods of the using of stereological techniques | | | Week 11 | The instruments for the basic stereological techniques | | | Week 12 | Sampling strategy to different tissue | | | Week 13 | Number estimation using different stereological techniques | | | Week 14 | Number estimation using different methods | | | Week 15 | Disector technique | | | Week 16 | The fractionator technique | | | |
| 1 | Howard CV, Reed MG. Unbiased Stereology: Three dimensional measurement in microscopy. Oxford: Bios Scientific Publishers; 1998. | | | |
| 1 | Bancroft, J.D., Cook, H.C., Stirling, R.W., 1994. Manual of Histological Techniques and their Diagnostic Applications. Churchill Livingstone, London. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Presentation | 16 | | 2 | 100 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 10 | 15 | 150 | | Diğer 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 152 |
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