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VETE0070-1

Physiology of animal reproduction

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Duration :21h Th, 4h Pr, 6h Mon. WS
Credits/ECTS :
3rd "candidature" in veterinary medicine3
Holder(s) :Jean‑François Beckers
Course contents : Last a short recall about the general mechanisms of the gonad and genital tract development, the course views in details: gametogenesis (folliculogenesis in female and spermatogenesis in male) including: maturation, gametic carrying, fertilization, implantation and pregnancy.

Next, the reproductive endocrinology is reviewed and putted in the general context of the individual’s homeostasis. She is also envisaged in a comparative way between, male and female, different species: human and animal and the different physiological status meted during the individual’s life: intra-uterine life (embryonic and fetal), growth period, mature period, pregnancy, parturition, lactation starting, postpartum…. Finally, we introduce the reproduction problems and the new methods for sexuality mastering.
Course objective : We are teaching the basis of reproduction physiology to the third year’s students. The course concerns mainly the regulations and mechanisms of reproductive function. So, the teaching establishes inter-specific comparisons, schematizes the possible ways to understand the reproduction troubles and defines the hormonal pathways and drugs used for cyclicity mastering or the treatments of reproduction disturbances. By specific discussions, we go deeper into the pregnancy and the evolution from regular cycle to anoestrus.
Prerequisites : No particular knowledge is required, just be successful the second year’s veterinary school or have an equivalent certificate authenticated by the university of Liège.
Workshops :
  • Specific discussions:
This second section of teaching will be organized by group of twenty students (+/- 5). In this part, the students are actively involved in the analysis of the informations available in the multimedia library. The attendance is obligatory on all sessions (6h). The students can take place in several groups.





  • Practice works:
These works will be organized by group of twenty-five (+/-2) students and treated to the different species. Because the limited hour's number, we take up the veterinary actions that can't be ignored. Attendance is required.
Organization : The Faculty anticipates a timetable included in the program edited by the university. Twenty-one matters are teaching ex-cathedra. By student request, seminars are organized without interfere the established timetable. We announce these sessions at least a week ahead.
Written notes : Documentation consists into a CD Rom available at the service, at the beginning of the year. Three syllabi about five hundred pages and contain a lot of additional informations, more than the required knowledge for the exams but useful for the next years. Three texts, basis for the seminars and for continuing education sessions of the practitioners, some abstracts about topical subjects and slide shows of the belgian and foreign meetings are also available on the website of continuing education: http://www.intranet.ulg.ac.be/fmv/forncont/index.htm. Moreover, a glossary of the mainly terms or expressions used in animal's reproduction will allow a quite checking of the knowledge. So, to facilitate the student's work, a hundred new questions will be given out during the year. The version available at the 'office des cours' is out of date. A compendium of animal reproduction edited by Intervet is given free to develop the critical mind of the student's. The students are strengthly invited to get it.
Assessment : The examination consists into a whrited exam made up 40 multiple choice questions (MCQ) and 5 questions with a short answer (SAQ).

The exam's progress: simul distribution of the two questionnaires (MCQ and SAQ). The students have two hours to answer.
Contacts : Prof. Jean François Beckers
Tel.: 04/366.41.61, email: jfbeckers@ulg.ac.Be

Assistant: Natacha Duquesnoy
Tel.: 04/366.41.67, email: natacha.duquesnoy@ulg.ac.be

Secretariat: Ms Noucairi-Fares Raja
Tel.: 04/366.41.62, Fax: 04/366.41.65
Email: raja.fares@ulg.ac.be

Doctor J Sulon
Tel.: 04/366.41.64, email: jsulon@ulg.ac.be

Doctor B Remy
Tel.: 04/366.41.68, email: bremy@ulg.ac.be
Remarks : Any student, at the year's beginning, fills in an individual form with a recent photo at the department, Bat.41-1st floor, upstairs the radiology.


As the numerous ways following by the students to come in 4th year and the late intervention of the seminars (the last year), we accept at the specially student's request to give seminars and lessons (these must be announced, at their fellow students, a week ahead).


We accept to frame a lot of student's work. Numerous bibliographic or experimental subjects are available in the library's department. Some data files are available for consultation: http://www.intranet.ulg.ac.be/fmv/forncont/index.htm. These files contain the continuing educational of the last years. Finally, the slide shows are recorded on a CD-ROM available at the department.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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