Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Physiology and Pathological Physiology

Type of study	Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	450-8405/02
Abbreviation	FaPF
Course title	Physiology and Pathological Physiology
Credits	3
Coordinating department	Department of Cybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. MUDr. Zdeněk Jirák, CSc.

Subject syllabus

- Health and illness, sleep, stress, biological rhythms, immunity, allergy
- Body fluid regulation and disorders of water and acid-base balance
- Metabolism and metabolic carbohydrates, proteins, fats, purines
- Nutrition, vitamins, nutritional disorders
- Physiology of blood, blood disorders, and hematopoietic system
- Coronary circulation and its disorders
- Atherosclerosis
- Conduction system disorders, arrhythmias
- Physiology of the heart and circulation, heart failure, thromboembolic disease
- Hypertension, nervous system disorders
- Physiology of respiration, respiratory tract disorders
- Physiology of kidney and renal failure, Endocrinology
- Physiology of digestion, digestive tract disorders

Literature

1.GUYTON, Arthur C., HALL, John E.:. Textbook of Medical Physiology. New York : Saunders, 2005.

Advised literature

1.KAPIT, W., MACEY, Robert I., MEISAMI, E.:. The Physiology coloring book. San Francisco : Benjamin/Cummings Science Publishing, 2000.

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