PATH 270Basic and Clinical Aspects of Developmental Hematology
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Graduate- and postgraduate-level course that covers broad range of topics in both basic and clinical aspects of developmental hematology. Pediatric hematologic disorders provide important paradigm to study other developmental systems. Subjects include hematopoiesis, basic stem cell biology, angiogenesis, alternative models to study developmental hematology (zebrafish and Drosophila ), basic physiology of normal and abnormal red cells, platelets, and white cells, leukemogenesis and novel therapeutics to treat leukemia, basic and clinical stem cell transplantation, state-of-the-art methods in developmental hematology (genomics, proteomics, and gene therapy, design of clinical trials, and biomathematical modeling and statistics in developmental hematology.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
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Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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