Pathology: Regeneration, Healing and Repair

Lecture on repair: the ability to repair damage from toxic insults and inflammation as critical to survival, how the inflammatory response eliminates microbes and injured tissue and then clears the debris, the regeneration of parenchymal cells and the labile, stable and permanent tissue classes, the roles of stem cells and growth factors, wound healing by first and second intention, granulation tissue and scar formation, and the factors that modify healing.