Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HDM 504 - Basic Mechanisms of Disease


The Basic Mechanisms of Disease component of the Biomedical Building Blocks is divided into several thematic areas: basic cell and tissue histology, general mechanisms of disease including cell injury and repair, cell death, and environmental disease, neoplasms, including tissue changes in response to cancer, molecular mechanisms of cancer, carcinogenesis tumor invasion and metastasis, and tumor immunology; hematology, including components of hemostasis (control of the coagulation pathway including bleeding and thrombosis), components of blood, and pathophysiology of anemias, leukemias, lymphomas, and stem cell malignancies; and characteristics of diseases of the skin (dermatology) including inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic and pigment disorders.

0-3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)