Main teaching objectives:

At the end of the course, students must know the function of the organs in the human body; the dynamical integration of the various organs into systems; the general mechanisms of functional control under normal conditions; the normal values of the main functional parameters in healthy humans; the medical application of biophysical and biotechnological principles. They must also know some of the techniques used to measure physiological parameters.

Requirements: For a good understanding of the topics considered in this course, students should have adequately studied the subjects of the following exams: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Histology, Anatomy.

Suggested textbooks:

§  WF Boron, EL Boulpaep: Medical Physiology. Elsevier 2017. ISBN: 978-0323427968

§  BM Koeppen, BA Stanton: Berne & Levy Physiology. Mosby Elsevier 2010. ISBN: 978-0-323-07362-2

§  JH Hall: Guyton and Hall Medical Physiology. Saunders Elsevier. ISBN: 978-1-4160-44574-8

§  DU Silverthorn: Human Physiology. 6th edition. Benjamin Cummings. ISBN: 978-0321750006