Unit APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004026
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Valeria Marsili
- Teachers
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- Valeria Marsili
- Hours
- 42 ore - Valeria Marsili
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2015
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/09
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Omeostasis, Nervous System, Endocrine System, Nutrition and Growth. PsycoNeuroEndocrineImmunology
- Reference texts
- Costanzo L.S. FISIOLOGIA Edra Edizioni
Hall J. E. Fisiologia Medica Elsevie - Educational objectives
- Good acquirements of the physiology of the nervous system and the mechanisms that regulate the nutrition, growth and body. Relation between the different systems to maintain homeostatic balance (PNEI)
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Chemistry, Human Anatomy, Biochemistry
- Teaching methods
- Lesson andscientific lectures
- Other information
- The teacher is available for any further explanations by appointment at her office on the 4th floor of the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology
- Learning verification modality
- Test "in itinere" and oral exam
- Extended program
- Omestasis . Mechanisms of omeostatic control: negative and positive feed-back. Cellular communication: autocrine, paracrine, nervous and endocrine.
Central and peripheral nervous system.
Physiology of endocrine system: chemistry of the hormones, mechanisms of synthesis, secretion and action endocrine glands.
Ipothalamus, hypophysis, pancreas, thyroid, parathyroid glands, adrenal glands, sexual glands. Physiology of the reproduction.
Nutrition and growth. Physiology of gastro-intestinal system: motility, secretion, digestion and absorption. Physiology of the digestive organs and accessory glands.
Gastro-intestinal hormones
Principle of PsycoNeuroEndocrineImmunology