Course title
馬臨床学   [Equine Clinical Medicine]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 4  Semester YearLong 
Course type YearLong  Course code 01VN4210
Instructor(s)
田中 治夫, 天竺桂 弘子, 本林 隆, 神田 修平, 山田 哲也   [TANAKA Haruo, TABUNOKI Hiroko, MOTOBAYASHI Takashi, KANDA Shuhei, YAMADA Tetsuya]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
This lecture provides students with the basic, clinical and applied knowledge of fish diseases according to the Veterinary Medicine Model Core Curriculum established in 2012, and to the Guideline of the National Examination in Veterinary Medicine established in 2016.
All lectures will be distance lectures this year, and PPT slide files with commentary audio will be viewed.
Expected Learning
General Fish Diseases : understanding and explaining classification, anatomy and physiology, husbandry and health management, and self-defense mechanisms of fish.
Special Topics in Fish Diseases : Understanding and explaining environmental and nutritional disorders, tumors, infectious diseases caused by virus, bacteria, fungi, protozoan, myxozoan and metazoan parasites.
Please refer to the curriculum map of the three policies of our website. URL: https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/
Course schedule
Week 1
Classification of fish including the details of valuable and/or culturing fish species.
Week 2
Anatomy and physiology of fish #1: gross features, skin, scales, bony tissues and musculatures.
Week 3
Anatomy and physiology of fish #2: gills, circulatory system, hematopoietic tissues, blood.
Week 4
Anatomy and physiology of fish #3: digestive system, swim bladder, kidney.
Week 5
Anatomy and physiology of fish #4: endocrine system, nervous system, sensory organs.
Aquaculture and fisheries science.
Week 6
Aquaculture, related laws and regulations, animal ethics.
Week 7
Fish biological defense, pain perception, analgesia/anesthesia methods, euthanasia methods, animal ethics.
Week 8
Breeding of ornamental fish, forms of examination, clinical symptoms
Week 9
Environmental diseases, nutritional diseases and tumors
Week 10
Infectious diseases #1: DNA and RNA viral pathogens and diseases.
Week 11
Infectious diseases #2: Gram-negative/positive bacterial pathogens and diseases.
Week 12
Infectious diseases #3: Fungal and protozoan diseases.
Week 13
Infectious diseases #4: Microsporidial and mucous sporozoite diseases.
Week 14
Infectious diseases #5: Mononozoic and large parasitic diseases.
Week 15
Summary and examination.
Prerequisites
It is desirable that students should have basic knowledge of anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology and microbiology. In addition to the 30 hours of class time and the time required to create assignments, refer to the distributed lecture materials and reference books to prepare and review according to the standard number of hours of the university.
Required Text(s) and Materials
New Atlas of Fish Diseases (Midori-Shobo), Fish Pathology (Midori-Shobo)
References
Assessment/Grading
A final test will be conducted at the 15th lecture. The scores will be comprehensively evaluated.
Students who miss equal to or more than 30% of the classes are disqualified for the exam.
Message from instructor(s)
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Office hours
From 10 am to 5 pm. I will mainly respond by email.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
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Last update
3/18/2023 9:59:07 AM