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
- 2020/21
- 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
- Contents
- 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.
Particular attention will be paid to the Nervous and Muscular Systems, to some sense organs, to food digestion, to reproduction and to some examples of the Endocrine System. - 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 correlate and synthesize the previous notions learned in the Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses applied to different physiological systems in animals, with a view to their phylogenetic development from Invertebrates to Vertebrates.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the topics of General Biology, Histology and Embryology, General Physiology, Principles of Anatomy and Biochemistry.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal and/or in remote lessons
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination, lasting about 25 minutes, with the aim of assessing the students' ability to understand and synthesize the topics, and their integration with related knowledge.
- 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