Course detail

Physiology of Man

FEKT-AFYZAcad. year: 2012/2013

Human physiology deals with normal functions of human organism, its organs and tissues, cells, cell organellas and molecules. It lays emphasis on how the partial functions are controlled and how they integrate in a higher, accomplished whole- the organism.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. MUDr. Zdeněk Wilhelm, CSc.

Department

Department of Biomedical Engineering (UBMI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The knowledge of the subject should constitute a basis for a further study and for practice – linking the human factor with the technical (and vice versa)

Prerequisites

Knowledge at secondary school level and of completed subjects in the study area

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

General functional principles. Physiology of blood. Physiology of peripheral blood circulation. Respiration. The gastrotestinal tract. Metabolism and nutrition.The excretory system. The endocrine system. Reproduction physiology. The nervous system physiology, brain and behaviour.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To develop a knowledge of the basic principles of the functioning of a healthy human organism, to explain the basis of processes taking place in it.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

WILHELM, Zdeněk et al. Stručný přehled fyziologie člověka pro bakalářské studijní programy. Brno: MU Brno, 2005. ISBN 978-80-210-5283-3. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BTBIO-A Bachelor's

    branch A-BTB , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MUDr. Zdeněk Wilhelm, CSc.

Syllabus

Introduction to medical physiology. The cell – the cell membrane. The origin of rest membrane tension.
Blood - composition, function. The immune system.
EKG. The heart - morphology, function, the gradient of heart automacy, EKG.
The pumping function of the heart. Blood circulation - small, large, foetal. Specifities in some organs.
Respiration- the mechanics of breathing, vital capacity, transport of gases. Control, hypoxy.
The kidneys - morphology and function of individual sections. The countercurrent system of kidneys.
Functional tests in kidneys. Composition of bodily fluids. Acidobasic equilibrium.
The gastrointestinal tract, metabolism of substrates. Nutrition, obesity.
General control principles, endocrine glands
Regulation of homeostasis, natrium, calcium, glaucom control, water management, energy
Neuron: morphology, structure, mediators. Morphology and function of the spinal cord.
basal ganglia, cerebral cortex. Reflexes.
Higher nervous activity, learning, sleep, memory.

Laboratory exercise

39 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. MUDr. Zdeněk Wilhelm, CSc.

Syllabus

Determination of the number of erytrocytes, osmotic resistence, blood groups, concentration of hemoglobin
The stroke of the heart apex, responses. Palpation examination of pulse - changes in work, in changed positions of the body
Electrocardiography, ergometry
Blood pressure in man-noninvasive methods of measurement (the Korotkov oscillometry, the Penaz method)
The digital model of aorta. Spirometry.
Pneumography, pneumotachography.
Determination of the respiratory centre sensitivity to hypoxy and hypercapnia.
Pletysmography (calculation blood flow rate in the lower arm), sfygmography (pulse wave velocity)
Determination of the energetic outlay of organism by measurement and calculation
Evaluation of nutrition
Reflexes in man. Recording of Achilles‘ tendon - mechanical and electrical response
EEG. Electrooculography. Stabilometry.
Reaction time. Examination of optical anuity. Field of vision and the blackspot. Accommodation. Scheiner‘s experiment.