PHYSIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
ZOL-411
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
8.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
Digestion and absorption of dietary components.
Nutritional requirements and disorders
Respiration 
Mechanism and control of breathing.
Physiology of Respiration
Concept of partial pressure of gases. 
Bohr's Effect
12.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II
Physiology of Excretion:
Kinds of nitrogenous excretory end-products
(ammonotelic. uricotelic and ureotelic) 
Functional architecture of mammalian kidney tubule 
Formation of urine
Hormonal regulation of water and electrolyte balance
 
9.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
Blood 
Composition and function of Blood and lymph
Blood groups
Blood coagulation
Structure and function of haemoglobin.
 
Physiology of Muscle Contraction
Functional architecture of skeletal muscle
Mechanism of skeleton muscle contraction 
 
10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
Heart 
Structure; origin, conduction and regulation of heart beat
Cardiac cycle
ECG.
Peripheral circulation –
Blood pressure
Capillary pressure
8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
Physiology of Nerve Impulse and Reflex Action
Functional architecture of a neuron
Origin and propagation of nerve impulse,
Synaptic transmission
Reflex action and reflex arc
 
Essential Readings: 
Text Book of Medical Physiology; Chatterjee, M.N and Shende, R.; Jaypee brothers.
A Textbook of Animal Physiology; Berry,A.K.; Emkay Publisher, Delhi.
Text Book of Medical Physiology; Guyton A.C.; 
Animal Physiology Mechanisms and Adaptation. Eckert, R.W.H. Freeman and Company, New York 
Animal Physiology adaptation and Environment, Schiemdt Neilsen. Cambridge 
Environmental and Metabolic Animal Psysiology, Prosser, C.L.Wiley-Liss Inc., New York. 
Environmental Psysiology, Willmer,P.G.Stone, and I.Johnson. Blackwell Sci. Oxford, UK. 
Adaptation to Envioronment. Essays on the Psysiology of Marine Animals. Newell, R.C. (ed.) 1976. Butterworths, London, UK. 
Psysiological Ecology: An evolutionally approach to resource use. Townsend, C.R. and P. Cawlow. Blackwell Sci. Publ., Oxford, UK 
Optima for Animals. Alexander, R.M.N. Princeton Univ. Press. Princeton, NJ 
Comparative Physiology: Life in water or land. Dejours,P., L. Bolis,                         C.R.Taylor and ER. Weibel (eds.). Liviana Press, Padova, Italy 
 
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