BIOLOGY 310
PHYSIOLOGY SYLLABUS
FALL 2007

Dr. Paul H. Yancey

TOPIC
GRADING
% of grade
DATE
Physiological PRINCIPLES; Cell Physiology; REGULATION--Neural Basics
13%
Sept. 28
REGULATION--Nervous Systems, Sensors; Immune; Endocrine; Muscles
17%
Oct. 26
MAINTENANCE--Circulation, Respiration; Excretion, Fluids; Digestion; Energy; Temperature; REPRODUCTION
29%
Dec. 13
LABORATORIES
Reports

36%

GRADING: 90-100% A; 80-89.9% B; 70-79.9% C; etc. Plus/minus cutoffs at x.33 and x.67%

SYLLABUS for the course ....... PHYSIOLOGY 310 COURSE-DESCRIPTION PAGE

TEXTBOOK: ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY by Sherwood, Klandorf and Yancey (Brooks-Cole, 2005)
GO TO TEXTBOOK WEBSITE Main Page, or the Student Book Companion Page

Go to GET BODY SMART: excellent interactive images, animations, and experiments for anatomy and physiology

Go to Interactive Atlas of Human Structure and Function (by Tomaz Amon)


DETAILED SYLLABUS with LINKS

Lectures 9-19

Lectures 20-30

Lectures 31-42
PRE-lecture period Aug. 28-Sept. 6 Prof. Yancey will be on the Atlantis with the Alvin submersible investigating physiological adaptations of animals at hydrothermal vents. There will be REGULAR EMAILS to the class to read.  

Lecture #1
Sept. 7

->Brief History of Physiology
->Universal Features of Life

TOPIC LINKs:
Optional: Antiqua Medicina--From Homer to Vesalius
__Ibn-al Nafis: the original discoverer of human circulation ?
__VassarStats statistic programs (free!)

BIOETHICS LINKS:
__Breaking Bioethics News at MSNBC
___Bioethics Net: bioethical principles and news
___MCW's Center for the Study of Bioethics
___Lecture on Method of Bioethics from the MCW center

LAB--BIOETHICS LINKS:
__A private company that supposedly clones humans
__A private company cloning pet cats
__California Cryobank
__DNA Copyright Institute: selling the copyrighting of personal DNA
__Alcor: a cryogenics organization working to freeze humans "alive"

GENOME TOPICS:
__NCBI-NIH MapViewer of Organism Genomes
__Links to Animal Genomics Research
__US Animal Genome Mapping
__TIGR

Lectures #2-3
Setp. 11-12

->Principles of Self-Regulation: Homeostasis and Rheostasis

TOPIC LINKs: HOMEOSTASIS: dynamic simulations at UMV PhysioWeb
___Principles of Feedback

Lectures #4-6
Sept. 13-18

->Cell and Molecular Physiology; Communication

TOPIC LINKs: **McGrawHill transcription animation -- excellent
Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
__Functional and Comparative Genomics: Fact sheet, answers to common questions
__Database of Macromolecular Movements: links to movies of biochemical events
__Gallery of Biomolecule simulations (UCSD)
__National Biotechnology Information Facility: news, jobs, images, databases, games in molecular biology!
__Tutorial animations on Biomolecules in 3D! (Requires Chime 2.0 and NETSCAPE, not EXPLORER)
__Online tour of the Human Genome: NYTimes instructions or the UCSC Genome site with the online tour itself
__Institute for Systems Biology--a new Seattle institute to explore the complex feedback and other networks that regulate gene expression.

Lectures #7-10
Sept. 19-25

->Regulation: Basic Neural Mechanisms

Sept. 28

->EXAM I--SEE a previous EXAM [To print these from Safari or Explorer, use Print Preview /Page Setup and make sure each fits on 1 page]:
ExamI pg1, ExamI pg2, ExamI pg3, ExamI articles
GO TO Exam Review Outline I

GO TO Exam RESULTS graph

RETURN TO TOP

Lectures #10-14
Sept. 26-Oct. 3

->Regulation: Higher Nervous Systems

TOPIC LINKs--RECOMMENDED:
__Speech areas of the brain--interactive site at Princeton University
__Anandamide in the brain --and chocolate and marijuana
__The Cerebellum as a Smith Predictor (J. Motor Behav.1993)
__Brain Connection: about memory and language pathways including an animation
__NEUROETHICS: a new field of bioethics
__NEUROTHEOLOGY: brain "roots" of spirituality
__Brain scans detect antisocial people
__ New Clues to Why We Dream (New York Times Nov. 2 '99)
__The Thalamocortico Hypothesis of Consciousness
__Neural Networks in Russia, and motor eye control and learning at Univ. Washington
__ Rat Maze: a neural-net that simulates a rat solving a maze, uses neural-network programming
__2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Dopamine and the Brain

Lectures #15-17
Oct. 4-10

->Regulation: Sensors

TOPIC LINKs: Vomeronasal organ
__Odorama (Leffingwell & Assoc)--about the sense of smell and the food and perfume industries. Molecular odor models included! Requires Chime plug-in
__Making Sense of Taste--about the sense of taste and why classic maps of the tongue are wrong!
__The cochlea website: information on its function
__2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine: Olfactory Receptors

Lectures #18-20
Oct. 11-16

-->Regulation/Maintenance: Defense Systems/Immunity

TOPIC LINKs:
__The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance (Scientific American '98)--the evolution of new superbacteria
__ImmunoAnimations--see Tcells in action (etc.)
__IOMAI Corp.--developing transcutaneous immunization using skin dendritic (=Langerhans) cells; started in part by a Whitman grad!
__The Triclosan controversy--(ab)use of antibactericidal compound in everyday cleansers
__Stress and your brain--how high stress causes severe brain damage

Lectures #21-22
Oct. 17-18

->Regulation: Endocrine Systems

TOPIC LINKs:
__ Pharmacology Central: descriptions and structures of common signal molecules and drugs
__Anabolic Steroids: Anabolics.Com: a site in favor of steroid usage; and a US Government site on Anabolic Steriod Abuse and Addiction

Lectures #23-25
Oct. 20-24

->Movement: Muscles

TOPIC LINKS:
__Flexor/Extensor muscles
__Crab-claw animation at U. Alberta: how muscles work with exoskeletons
__Jaw gene linked to human evolution

Oct. 26

->EXAM II--SEE a previious EXAM [To print these from Safari or Explorer, use Print Preview /Page Setup and make sure each fits on 1 page]:
ExamII- pg1, ExamII reading page, ExamII pg2, and ExamII pg3;
GO TO Exam Review Outline II

GO TO Exam RESULTS Graph

 

Lectures #26-29
Oct. 25-Nov. 1

->Maintenance: Circulation

TOPIC LINKS:
__Hemoglobin binding simulation
__News story: Neckties cause glaucoma?

Lectures #30-31
Nov. 6-7

->Maintenance: Respiration

TOPIC LINKS:
BIRD LUNG ANIMATION

Lectures #32-35
Nov. 8-15

->Maintenance: EXCRETION; FLUID Balance; ACID-BASE

TOPIC LINKS:
__Tardigrades.com! A site describing these incredible creatures, which (in a dormant state) can withstand 100 years without water; can tolerate extreme pressures, vacuum, X-rays, liquid nitrogen.....

Lectures #36-39
Nov. 27-30

->Maintenance: ENERGY and NUTRITION

TOPIC LINKs:
__CSU's DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Pathology Page (lecture notes, pictures, animations)
__Physiologic effects of insulin
__Weight reduction by surgery of the digestive tract (1)
__Weight reduction by surgery of the digestive tract (2)
__Peptides involved in weight/appetite regulation

Lectures #40-41
Dec. 4-5

->Maintenance: TEMPERATURE

Lectures #42)
Dec. 6

->REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS

TOPIC LINKs:
__The Clitoris: recent discovery

DEC. 13

->FINAL EXAM--SEE a SAMPLE EXAM [To print these from Firefox, Safari or Explorer, use Print Preview /Page Setup and make sure each fits on 1 page]. NOTE that the 2007 will cover MORE TOPICS than this one!!
Final pg1, Final pg2, Final pg3, Final pg4, Final pg5, and Final Exam Article 1 and Articles2-3
GO TO Exam Review Outline-- Final

GO TO Final exam RESULTS graph

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