ANATOMIA - FISIOLOGIA M - Z

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff
  • ANATOMIA: Claudia Lombardo
  • FISIOLOGIA: Adriana Carol Graziano
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field
  • BIO/16 - Human anatomy
  • BIO/09 - Physiology
Taught classes: 84 hours
Term / Semester: 1° and 2°

Learning Objectives

  • FISIOLOGIA

    PHYSIOLOGY

    • Gain a clear understanding of the cellular mechanisms and network that enable the human body to function.
    • Knowing the integrated functioning of the different organs, apparatus and control systems through which the living organism obtains and maintains homeostasis.
    • Clear understanding of the mechanisms that, when abnormal, turn into pathological dysfunctions.

Detailed Course Content

  • FISIOLOGIA

    General part

    • Compartmentalization: cells, tissues and organs
    • Homeostasis, adaptation and responsiveness.
    • Intercellular Communication and modulation of signal transduction.
    • Control systems: Feedback Loops.

    The Nervous System

    • Functional Classification: central and peripheral nervous system
    • Cells of the Nervous System.
    • Neurons: excitable cells.
    • Resting potential and action potential.
    • Chemical and electrical synapses
    • Post-synaptic responses.
    • The central nervous system
    • Efferent Pathways: autonomic nervous system and the somatic motor system.
    • The control of body movement: integrated functions of the spinal cord, cerebellum and basal ganglia.

    The Endocrine System

    • Hormones, chemical characteristics, synthesis and secretion, transport in blood, mode of action.
    • Functions of the main endocrine glands: hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, pancreas. Regulation of calcium metabolism.
    • The Hypothalamus: its fundamental role in the Regulatory Systems of the homeostasis.

    Muscle

    • Muscular system: functions and mechanism of skeletal, smooth muscle and heart.
    • Neuromuscular Junction.

    Cardiovascular system

    • General properties, electrocardiogram, mechanical cycle of the heart.
    • Cardiac output and its regulation.
    • Regulation of blood pressure: influence of the vessels and the renin-angiotensin system.
    • The baroreflex.

    Renal physiology

    • Urinary system, nephron, glomerular ultrafiltration, resorption processes and tubular secretion.
    • Antidiuretic hormone and aldosterone: the control of diuresis.
    • Regulation of acid-base balance. Buffers of human body.
    • Urination and its regulation.

    Respiratory system

    • Breathing and functions of the pleural space.
    • Functions of the lung in the regulation of acid-base balance.
    • Nervous control of breathing
    • Chemical control of breathing
    • Control of the respiratory center.

    Nutrition physiology

    • Digestion and absorption of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
    • Basal metabolic rate, body masses and their determination.
    • Water balance: intake and elimination. Regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance by hormones: vasopressin, renin, angiotensin, aldosterone. The thirst center.

Textbook Information

  • FISIOLOGIA
    1. Dee U. Silverthorn. FISIOLOGIA UMANA. UN APPROCCIO INTEGRATO. Ed. Pearson
    2. Carbone, Cicirata, Aicardi - Fisiologia: dalle molecole ai sistemi integrati – EDISES