LF:VLFY0422s Physiology II - seminar

VLFY0422s Physiology II - seminar

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025

Extent and Intensity

0/1.5/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

prof. MUDr. Marie Nováková, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Zuzana Nováková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Physiology – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine

Prerequisites

VLFY0321c Physiology I - practice && VLFY0321s Physiology I - seminar && VLBC0321s Biochemistry I - seminar
Knowledge of medical biology and biophysics in the extent of subjects taught at Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL) (3)

Course objectives

To teach students to understand and interprete various functions of human body. An essential aim is that students acquire critical scientific thinking, ability of independent text analysis and fundamental information selection. After finishing the course, students will be able to understand the terms used in general and systemic physiology of man. Students will acquire knowledge necessary for analysis and subsequent interpretation of phenomena taking place on cell, tissue and organ levels as well as on the level of whole human organism.

Learning outcomes

After finishing the course, students will be able to understand the terms used in general and systemic physiology of man. Students will acquire knowledge necessary for analysis and subsequent interpretation of phenomena taking place on cell, tissue and organ levels as well as on the level of whole human organism.

Syllabus

Seminar A: I. Ventilation of the lungs. Gas transport. Regulation of respiration. Assessment of respiratory functions. II. Body fluids. Renal blood flow. Renal functions. Glomerular filtration. Tubular processes. Countercurrent system. pH and its regulation by kidneys. III. Cardiac conduction system and myocardial cellular electrophysiology. Action potential spreading through myocardium and its registration. ECG leads. ECG curve. ECG curve interpretation, arrhythmias. IV. Heart as a muscle. Cardiac cycle. Polygraphy. Autoregulation of the heart. Coronary circulation. V. Mechanical functions of GIT. GIT secretions. Co-ordination of GIT segments. VI. Integrative physiology. Regulation and adaptation. Spiroergometry - reaction to exercise (team-based learning form). Reactions to hemorhage - simultation in patients with debriefing - SIMU centre. Seminar B - demonstration: Continuous measurement of blood pressure - principle, example of measurement, recording of Valsalva manoeuvre, influence of gravity, mental stress, variability of blood pressure. Physiology of childhood - psychomotor development of infants, evolutionary contexts. Length-tension relationship in skeletal muscle, experiment. Hypoxia - determination of sensitivity of the respiratory centre, experiment using Krogh's respirometer, oxygen toxicity, altitude hypoxia. Thermoregulation - influence of ambient temperature, cold experiment. Compliance of vascular system - examples of measurements in clinical practice.

Literature

required literature

BORON, Walter F. and Emile L. BOULPAEP. Medical physiology. Third edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2017, xii, 1297. ISBN 9781455743773. info

recommended literature

COSTANZO, Linda S. Physiology. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders/Elsevier, 2014, xi, 502. ISBN 9781455708475. info

Teaching methods

Teaching is conducted in the form of two forms of seminars. In the standard form of the seminar, students should read the literature of particular area of physiology and during the seminars, students intensify their knowledge in discussion with the teacher (seminar A). The second type of seminar (seminar B - demonstration) is an integral part of the course Physiology II seminar and takes place in the form of a combination of theoretical explanation supplemented by examples of measurements directly in the lecture hall on student volunteers.

Assessment methods

The course-unit credit is conditioned by full attendance and 70% control of preparedness in the seminars (control test on the beginning of seminar - 7 and more points). The demonstration test is written at the end of the semester under the same conditions (success rate 7/10).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 22.5.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

aVLMO051 Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology
(aVLFY0422c || aZLFY0422c || VLFY0422c || ZLFY0422c) && (aVLFY0422s || aZLFY0422s || VLFY0422s || ZLFY0422s) && (aVLBC0422c || aZLBC0422c || VLBC0422c || ZLBC0422c) && (aVLBC0422s || aZLBC0422s || VLBC0422s || ZLBC0422s)

Teacher's information

http://www.med.muni.cz/fyziol
The list of seminar topics is posted on the notice board of the Department of Physiology and in the IS MUNI - study materials - course related instructions. Consultation is possible after personal agreement with the teacher.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.

Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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