Ateneo - UPO

The course aims to provide basic knowledge regarding the skin system with particular attention to the wound healing process, repair and tissue regeneration.

Slides will be uploaded on the DIR platform.
Articles from the scientific literature.

To gather informations on the basis of the physiology of the skin, together with its tissue repair and regeneration mechanisms.

Basic knowledge of the anatomy of the skin and appendages.
Elements of culture cells

Frontal lessons
Videos
Discussion on scientific articles from the scientific literature.

Written exam on the topics discussed in classes, with multiple choice and open questions test.

- Anatomy of the skin and appendages;
- Fundamentals of surgery in skin repair;
- Wound healing;
- Photoinduced and chronoinduced skin damage;
- Cell cultures (monolayer and 3D);
- Skin substitutes and skin equivalents;
- Spheroids and organoids;
- stem cells used in dermatological field;
- Wnt pathway and hair appendages;
- PRP (Plasma-rich platelet) in hair diseases;

The students will acquire general basic informations on the physiology of the skin, repair and regenerative mechanisms.