Biology 412 (Undergraduate Credit) or 5412 (Graduate Credit)
Instructor: Dr. Stan A. Baldwin
Text:
Human Physiology: from Cells to Systems by Lauralee Sherwood.
Textbook of Medical Physiology by Guyton & Hall
5 semester hours credit. 4 hours lecture/3 hours lab per week.
Offered every spring.
We cover following basic areas of Physiology in this course:
Cell membrane potential, which involves membrane capacitance, movement of charged particle
across the membrane, and the factors involved in determining the resting membrane potential.
Action potentials, which involves ion movement across the cell membrane, voltage sensitive ion
channels and ligand sensitive channels.
Osmotic pressure and the maintenance of osmotic homeostasis in the body.
Renal Physiology, which covers the kidneys' role in maintaining water balance, electroloyte balance,
and pH control of body fluid.
Neurophysiology, which covers some basic Neuroanatomy, various types of neurotransmitters,
action potentials, and nervous system regulation of the body's major organ systems.
Muscle physiology, which covers the cell biology of muscle function as well as muscle membrane
action potentials.
Cardiovascular physiology, which involves the electrical properties of the heart muscle, dynamics
of heart contraction, EKG's, fluid mechanics of blood flow through the vascular system and nervous
system control of cardiovascular function.
Pulmonary function. We study the nature of gas movement in the lungs and how that controls
body wide metabolism and pH control of body fluid.
Exams (all exams comprehensive)
Exam I (Osmotic pressure, Pulmonary)
Exam 2 (Renal)
Exam 3 (Neurophysiology, Muscle physiology)
Exam 4 (Cardiovascular)