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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Degree:
Course of 1st Cycle Degree in NURSING
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Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
In order to be able to take the Physiology exam, it is necessary to have taken the examinations of the first semester of the first year of the course and have acquired the signatures of compulsory attendance.
Objectives Contents Definition of Homeostasis. Cell membrane and transport. Electrophysiology. Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nerve System. Motor Nervous System and Sensory Systems. Muscular System. Hypothalamus and Autonomous Nervous System. Cardiocirculatory system. Blood. Respiratory System. Temperature control. Physiology of body fluids. Renal function. Gastrointestinal system. Endocrine system.
Extended Syllabus Hours provided: 45. Cellular physiology. Chemical-physical characteristics of the cell membrane; permeability; Passive and active transport mechanisms. Homeostasis. Definition of the concept of stability of the internal medium and regulations. Electrophysiology. Excitable tissues, excitability; Membrane potentials (rest and action); Conduction and transmission of the electrical signal; Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, receptor mechanisms; Chemical and electrical synapses; Central synapse and neuromuscular synapse. Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nerve System. Motor Nervous System and Sensory Systems. Sensomotor integration. Pain.The elements of the motor system; Motoneuroni and muscles; Control of movement and posture: the spinal cord; The trunk of the brain; The cerebral cortex; The basal ganglia; The cerebellum; Associative areas of the cerebral cortex. Integrative functions of the central nervous system. Sensory information, sensory information perception; Sensory receptors and organization of the somesthesic system; Muscular System. Contractile and mechanical properties of skeletal and smooth muscle fibers; Excitation-shortening-relaxation cycle in skeletal and smooth muscle. Mechanism of muscle contraction; Muscle metabolism; Hypothalamus and Autonomous Nervous System. Hypothalamic functions and hypothalamic reflex centers. Overview of anatomy, neurotransmitters and functions of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System; Visceral reflexes and their integrating centers.Cardiocirculatory system. Anatomical and physiological features of the heart muscle; Excitable tissues of the heart. Excitability, automatism, rhythmicity, conductivity, contractility. Pacemaker cells and conduction system: electrical properties; ECG; Working myocardium: electrical and mechanical properties; Contractability and its regulation; Cardiac metabolism; Law of all or nothing; Frank - Starling law; Laplace's law; Cardiac cycle; Cardiac output: measurement and regulation; Venous return; Arterial pressure: reflex and humoral measurement and regulation, short-term and long-term; Vascular compliance. Arterial pulse concept; Viscosity of the blood, laminar and turbulent motion. Law of hemodynamics: Poiseuille's law. Adaptation to physical exercise; Notes on district circles and microcirculation.Blood: Blood components and functions: transport, immunity, hemostasis and homeostasis; Chemical-physical characteristics; Blood buffer systems and acid-base balance.
Recommended Bibliography Recommended readings:
FISIOLOGIA UMANA
BELFIORE ET AL. “ FISIOLOGIA UMANA- FONDAMENTI” - EDI ERMES EDITORE
STANFIELD - “FISIOLOGIA” – EDISES
Elaine N Marieb.Elementi di anatomia e fisiologia dell'uomo. Zanichelli
Teaching Methods Lectures with power point presentations.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The exam method is a written test designed to verify the results of the expected learning, in accordance with the educational and specific objectives of the course. The examination is placed at the end of the course, after having achieved the attendance to the same, according to a schedule established and published on the personal page of the student at the beginning of the academic year, which provides (2) two appeals for canonical session exam. The outcome of the test is evaluated as the result of learning the specific and training objectives, such as knowledge and understanding, capacity for logical integration and application. At the end of the test each teacher will form an opinion expressed in bands of vote and thirty:A) excellent knowledge and understanding of the subjects, ability to reason and logical integration of the acquired knowledge and insertion in the context of an application in the pathophysiology. Rating: 30/30. If the student, who has achieved this evaluation, demonstrates autonomy of judgment, high communication skills and autonomous learning skills, praise will be proposed. B) Good knowledge and understanding of the topics with some non-serious inaccuracies and with a good capacity for logical integration and judgment, and application in the pathophysiology rating: 27-29 / 30 C) Discrete knowledge and understanding of the topics and, despite some gaps in the ability to integrate and apply knowledge. Rating: 24-26 / 30 D) Knowledge and understanding of the arguments fully sufficient, although there are clear gaps, which are reflected in a reduced capacity for integration, logic and application. Rating 21-23 / 30 E) Knowledge and understanding of the topics with serious and evident gaps, with limited integrative and applicative skills, but which also allow the passing of the exam. Rating 18-20 / 30
Contacts/More Information Student reception hours: Monday 10.00am - 1.00pm (Dipartimento di Neuroscienze e Imaging – Sezione di Scienze Mediche di base e applicate - Nuovo Polo Didattico) email andrea.mazzatenta@unich.it or 3388 617861
