Animal Life Science

This course includes lectures delivered in a relay style on livestock, poultry, laboratory animals, and wild animals. The lectures explain basic information about the bodily structure of animals that are broadly and closely related to our lifestyles, origination, reproduction, immunity, and other vital phenomena. The lectures also explore the role of these animals in animal testing, the manufacture of laboratory animals, and their relation to wild animals.

tissue, immunity, origination, specialization, reproduction, genetics, animal testing, nutritive feedstock, stem cell, wild animals

Session 1: Outline of animal life science
Session 2: Application of life science to animal production
Session 3: Raising animals at a university
Session 4: A lifestyle with livestock
Session 5: The history of the relationship between humans and beasts
Session 6: The establishment and cultivation of cell lines
Session 7: The characteristics and applications of cell lines
Session 8: Reproductive cells and the formation of eggs
Session 9: The formation of sperm and fertilization
Session 10: Laboratory animals
Session 11: Genetically modified animals and disease model animals
Session 12: Stem cells and tissue regeneration
Session 13: Using animals to experiment
Session 14: The foundations of immunology
Session 15: The relationship between immunity and illness
Session 16: Final test

Syllabus (Japanese site only)