Unit VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY
- Course
- Biotechnology
- Study-unit Code
- 55046906
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Danilo Zampini
- Teachers
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- Danilo Zampini
- Hours
- 47 ore - Danilo Zampini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- VET/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Reference texts
- Fisiologia degli animali. Dai geni agli organismi.
Lauralee Sherwood, Hillary Klandorf, e al. 2006 - Zanichelli
Fisiologia animale
A. Poli, E. Fabbri, e al. 2018 - EDISES - Educational objectives
- The course aims to describe and correlate the evolutionary development of some physiological systems in different animal Phyla, Classes and Orders, with particular reference to Vertebrates and Mammals.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the topics of General Biology, Histology and Embryology, General Physiology, Principles of Anatomy and Biochemistry.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination
- Extended program
- 01_Introduction to the course and theory of evolution
02_ Regulation of organisms with respect to the environment
03_Membrane transport
04_Membrane potentials
05_Action potential
06_Evolution of the nervous system
07_ Evolution of photolocation and the vision in invertebrates
08_The vision in vertebrates
09_Mechanoreception and hearing
10_Physiology and evolution of the movement
11_The blood
12_Coagulation and complement system
13_Feeding and digestion
14_ Liver and pancreas
15_Excretion and kidney
16_Agamic and gamic reproduction
17_ Sexual differentiation and male reproduction in mammals
18_Reproduction of females in mammals
19_Outlines of comparative endocrinology
20_Hypothalamus and pituitary gland in vertebrates
21_Tyroid in vertebrates