- Docente: Federico Volpe
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8486)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student has learned the basics of Cardiovascular Physiology, respiratory, digestive, urinary, CNS and peripheral systems.
Course contents
Relationship between cells and extracellular environment, resting membrane potential, action potential, synaptic transmission.Homeostasis, homeostatic mechanisms of control
Function of skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle and smooth muscle function-anatomo-functional.
Organization of the nervous system, general somatic sensibilities, somatic, autonomic nervous system.
Pain.
Endocrine system.Male and female reproductive system. Menstrual cycle, uterine and ovarian. fertilization.
Mechanical activity of the heart, the heart's electrical activity. ECG. Haemodynamics, blood pressure, peripheral circulation.
Blood: composition and functions. Hemostasis.Thermoregulation
Lymphatic system
Respiratory mechanics, gas exchange in the lungs, carbon dioxide and oxygen transport in the blood, breath control, respiratory variations in ph
Mechanisms underlying the formation of urine,glomerular ultrafiltration, concentration and dilution of urine, mechanisms of metabolic changes of ph.
Mechanisms of digestive function.
Course contentsReadings/Bibliography
Multimedia teaching material made available by the teacher.
Teaching methods
Frontal teaching, and by giving lectures in multimedia mode (pc-slides).
Assessment methods
How achievement checking, direct to ensure adequate preparation of students and the ability to communicate effectively the topics of educational change,with rating expressed in thirtieths. The investigation, always individual, takes place in conditions that ensure the deepening, objectivity and fairness of the assessment in connection with the teaching provided.
Teaching tools
PC + video projector.
Office hours
See the website of Federico Volpe