- Docente: Davide Martelli
- Credits: 2
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will have a basic knowledge of the physiology of nutrition. Particularly, the homeostasis of body weight, the neural and hormonal control of feeding and energetic metabolism will be explained. The student will also have a basic knowledge of the central nervous circuitry controlling feeding behaviour and also how the autonomic nervous system can influence all the physiological control of nutrition.
Course contents
Metabolism
Hormonal control of metabolism
Physiological regulation of calcium and phosphate
Hypophysis, hypothalamus and endocrine axis
Thyroid
Adrenal glands
Autonomic nervous system
Readings/Bibliography
Zocchi - Principi di Fisiologia. Ed. EdiSeS
R.M. Berne, M.N. Levy, FISIOLOGIA (a cura di, B.R. Koeppen, B.A. Stanton), 6a Edizione, Milano Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2010 (ISBN 8808182746).
Assessment methods
Written test
Teaching tools
See Almacampus
Office hours
See the website of Davide Martelli