Syllabus
Content Lectures:
1. Homeostatic processes. Blood, lymph and interstitial fluid.
2. Circulation and its control.
3. Respiration and its control.
4. Digestion, absorption, metabolism.
5. Thermoregulation.
6. Functions of kidneys.
7. Endocrine system.
8. Structural and functional properties of muscles.
9. Structural and functional properties of nervous tissue.
10. Function of analyzers.
11. Function of CNS.
12. Control of movement.
13. Reflex regulations.
14. Adaptation and functional diagnostics. Practice: Examination of blood pressure and heart rate. Basic parameters of ventilation functions, spirometry. Orthostatic circulatory examination + ECG. Dynamometry. Anthropometry. Sensometry and reactometry tests. Indirect energometry and rest metabolism. Requirements for credit: - participation in practices - examination from practices - Requirements for exam: - - credit from practices - oral examination Recommended literature: All English text-books on Human Physiology from the last 10 years are recommended. DAVIES, A., BLAKELEY,,A., KIDD, C. Human Physiology,
1.edition, Churchil Livingston, Publishers, 2001, 949 pp. ISBN 043 0455593 FOX, S.I. Human Physiology. USA: McGraw-Hill.
1996. s.704. ISBN O-697-20985-7. MADER, S.S.: Human Biology,
2.edition, McGrave Hill Companies, 2001, ISBN 0-07-290584-0 TORTORA, G.J., ANAGNOSTAKOS, N.P. Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Harper and Row Publishers, all new editions
Annotation
Subject acquaints students with the functions of different organs and systems of human body and their control (including circulatory, respiratory, gastro-intestinal, excretory, endocrine, muscle, nervous and sense systems, as well as metabolism and thermoregulation).