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BIO3500 - General Toxicology

Course content

Toxicokinetics (how poisons are taken up in the organism, distributed, biotransformed and excreted), toksicodynamics (how poisons react with biomolecules and the consequenses of interactions), important toxic compounds (heavy metals, environmental contaminants, pesticides, carcinogene and mycotoxins), risk assessment and regulatory toxicology.

Learning outcomes

The course will give insight in biological and syntetic poisons and their mechanisms of action. The course can be included in the requirements to become EUROTOX-approved toxicologist.

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisites

In addition to fulfilling the Higher Education Entrance Qualification, applicants have to meet the following special admission requirements:

One of these:

• Mathematics R1
• Mathematics (S1+S2)

And and in addition one of these:

• Mathematics (R1+R2)
• Physics (1+2)
• Chemistry (1+2)
• Biology (1+2)
• Information technology (1+2)
• Geosciences (1+2)
• Technology and theories of research (1+2)

The special admission requirements may also be covered by equivalent studies from Norwegian upper secondary school or by other equivalent studies. Read more about special admission requirements.

Recommended prior knowledge

Necessary knowledge in organic chemistry, cell biology and biochemistry, for example the courses MBV1010 - Cell biology and genetics, MBV1030 - General biochemistry, MBV2020 - Laboratory course are recommended.

Overlap

10 credits overlap against BIO4500.

Teaching

Two double lectures are given each week in addition to optional supervised discussion groups.

Exam information

Approved participation in classes and one written final exam (100%). Letter grading (A-F).

Assessment and grading

Course grades are awarded on a descending scale using alphabetic grades from A to E for passes and F for fail. Read more about the grading system .

Evaluation of this course

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. As a student at the University of Oslo you will therefore be asked to participate in various types of evaluation of our courses, facilities and services. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, in-depth evaluation of this course, a so called "periodic evaluation".

Periodic evaluation autumn 2012.

Other information

The course is offered if the number of students registered are more than 3.

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