Listed below are websites located and described by students in physiology courses taught by Dr. Peter King at Francis Marion University. They are provided as a partial reference list for my students and a tribute to all their hard work.
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Index
Miscellaneous
http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/journals/cjppep.html
This is a research publication called "Canadian Journal of
Physiology and Pharmacology." It reports research on physiology
pharmacology, nutrition and toxicology. Well-known scientists
submit their reviews and some issues are completely dedicated
to a subject of special interest.
http://www.jgp.org
The Journal of General Physiology.
You can subscribe to the journal or look at current issues and
articles on line. The web site offers free samples and contact
information, as well as the full articles. You can also search
for an article by using a "key word."
http://www.mtn.co.za/whaleroute/diving.html
This website talks about the diving physiology of whales. As mammals
in aquatic environment they have evolved special physiological
adaptions to deal with the pressure, the air supplies, the decompression
sicknessand the nitrogen narcosis. Little is known about the diving
physiology, especially of deep diving animals as sperm whales.
http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Palms/8718/sharks.html
This website is dedicated to the physiology of sharks. They have
information concerning just about anything you would want to know
about >sharks. This is a short paragraph that I obtained from
this page. It is thought that sharks almost certainly evolved
from placoderms, a group of primitive jawed fish. It took a long
series of successful and unsuccessful mutations with fin, jaw
positions etc to give us all the different designs of sharks around
today. This website is equipped with much interesting information
and also gives many pictures of most any of the different types
of sharks.
http://www.cquest.toronto.edu/psych/psy280f/ch2/packer.html
This website describes photoreceptors
http://www.ncld.org/Id/info_Id2.html
This website describes behavioral concepts.
http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/content/short/273/4/H1644
This website has several different topics dealing with physiology.
There are articles dealing with heart and circulatory physiology,
renal physiology, lung physiology, but one of the articles that
caught my eye was one dealing with vitamin C and smoking. It was
talking about how smokers have a lower vitamin C level and an
impairment of flow-dependent vasodilation compared to non-smokers.
But it was concluded that an increase in vitamin C administration
with a decrease in TBARS would help improve the flow-dependent
vasodilation. This interested me because I know a lot of smokers
and smoke-related topics interest me.
http://bisleep.medsch.ucla.edu/sleepsyllabus/h.html
This website is dealing with sleep physiology. I found an article
that stated facts about the time an animal sleeps and all the
factors that play a part in their sleeping habits. I never knew
all the sleepinghabits, sleeping places, and sleeping positions
thatcould exist. Some animals sleep with their eyes open. Some
sleep underwater while swimming. Some can even sleep with one
half of their brain at a time. Others sleep standing up. Sleep
patterns are also determined by whether or not an animal is the
prey of predator. Body size also plays a part in the number of
hours slept. I found this to be a very interesting because I did
not know all the factors that played a part in determining why
and how different animals sleep the way their do.
http://www.ursa.kcom.edu/
This website that I found is called Baer's Physiology site. After
spending some time researching the site I found A region where
you could participate in computerized clinical cases. It was a
fun and educational experience trying to diagnose someone based
on my scientific knowledge.
http://cardiovascular.cx/chap4.htm
This site deals with animal passive filling heart replacement
pumps. It talks about replacing heart functions in dogs and blood
volume balancing between the pulmonary and systemic circuits.
It also talks about the relationship of blood volume to cardiac
output.
http://www.medicinenet.com/art.asp?li=mni&ag=y&articlekey=391
This website pertains to hyperthyroidism. This is also known as
Graves' Disease. This was particularly interesting to me because
my father has experienced this condition. He has undergone surgery
to correct it. This site defines hyperthyroidism. It also explains
the role of the thyroid gland. It describes the causes, symptoms,
and treatments of this disease.
http://www.planetkc.com/exrx/anabolicsteroids/physiological.html
This website describes the physiological affects of Anabolic-Androgen
Steroid. It lists a few of the positive physical effects of it
such as the increase in strength and muscle mass when accompanied
by adequate protein, calories, and intense training. The listing
of the positive effects serve as a contrast to the negative physiological
effects in that the steroid may play a physiological role in the
regulation of fatty acid oxidation in the liver and the fast twitch
muscle mitochondria even in the absence of intense physical training.
It goes on to list more effects of the drug and compares the oral
steroid to the injected steroid.
http://www.trauma-pages.com/vanderk4.htm
This website is focused more on psychophysiology, but I still
found it really interesting. The context describes the possible
physiological effects on people who have experience trauma as
researched by Bessel van der Kolk at Harvard Medical School. The
article proposes, at one point, that the excessive stimulation
of the central nervous system after a body has experienced trauma
may result in permanent neuronal changes that have a negative
effect on learning, habituation, and stimulus description. The
article tells of research to study the acoustic startle response.
This was a test for responses done on patients who had experienced
trauma.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/macustaud/homeeng.htm
Space Physiology is a website that focuses on the adaptations
of the human body during space travels. This site includes segments
on cardiovascular adaptations to weightlessness, a simulation
of weightlessness, and a section on prevention of gravity deconditioning.
http://www.sciam.com/1998/0998issue/0998white.html
This website deals with the effects of space travel on the human
body compares to some of the conditions of getting old/aging.
They believe that after studying the astronauts' health that may
be able to improve medical care.
http://www.cyber-north.com/anatomy/biology.htm
This website has tons of information on the systems that control
the body. The website goes into great detail about the different
human and mammalian body systems. It explains the Circulatory,
Digestive, Reproduction, Nervous, and Respiration Systems. It
also has images to better explain the desired topic.
Respiration
http://www.unb.ca/courses/biol4775/SPAGES/SPAGE2.HTM
This website deals with the diving physiology of the weddell seal.
Like in most other aquatic mammals diving requires physical and
physiological changes in the animal. The site talks about some
adaptations to diving in weddell seals like changes of the blood
volume, oxygen storage in the blood, anaerobic metabolism in some
tissues, slowing down of the heart rate and the problem of withstanding
the pressure.
http://www.healthy.net/library/books/hoffman/lowerrespitory/asthma.htm
This website tells you what asthma means in medical terms. but
it's
written in an easy way to understand. there are also listed the
different types
of asthma, what are the reasons for having asthma, and (what i
especially
liked) what remedies you can use against it. there is a list of
prescriptions
that only deals with plant combinations and mixtures, just other
things than
the normal medications.
http://www.hiline.net/~siremba/explanations/respinotes.html
This web site tells what the respiration system is, how it works,
and why it works. It also gives facts such as the respiratory
zone has a large surface area of 10m2. It breaks the system down
into parts telling how they all come together and work.
http://www.cyber-north.com/anatomy/respirat.htm
This site explains the respiration process. It also explains how
the body uses oxygen. It has information about land and sea animals.
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~dpower/resp/main.htm
A website on the respiratory system. The website gives a diagra
and a brief explanation of the five parts of gas exchange such
as: breathing, external respiration, gas transport, internal respiration,
and cellular respiration. Also, short explanations re given on
other factors involved with respiration such as: adaptations of
diving mammals, control of breathing, and structure of respiratory
system. The nose, pharynx and larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles,
and alveoli are structures of the respiratory system that are
discussed.
http://omie.med.jhmi.edu/res_phys/Encyclopedia/MusclesofResp/MusclesofResp.HTML
A website on respiration I found deals with the topic of Muscles
of Respiration and how they work. It also deals with the
different muscles themselves and "how" they are associated
with the process of respiration.
http://anatomy.med.unsw.edu.au/cbl/embryo/Refer/respire/select.htm
This website discusses how genes affect the development of the
lungs into the adult stage. It not only discusses the development
of the lungs of human embryos through the adult stage, but it
also talks about how certain genes affect the development of the
lungs in animals.
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~farabaug/sokolo5.html
Website with lecture type notes and outline of the Respiratory
System.
http://www.jcu.edu.au./~zljes/zl1001/Gasexchange2.htm
The website that I found about respiration is one that contains
information speciofically about different types of gills, the
structure of these gills, and how they function. The webpage is
in outline form,brief and to the point.
http://omie.med.jhmi.edu/res_phys/encyclopedia/emphysema/emphysema.html
This website comes from the John Hopkins University and deals
with the disease Empheysema.
http://ajplung.physiology.org
This site contains published articles on the respiratory system.
You can search, browse or select an article from the archives
of these published articles. You can view abstracts, sign the
guestbook,and get a subscription. This site also contains articles
from the American Journal of Physiology, Advancement in Physiology
Education, News in Physiology Science, Physiology Genomics, physiology
reviews, Journal of Applied Physiology, and the Journal of Neurophysiology.
Any of these listed areas can be browsed for articles on subjects
that pertain to their field of interest. The site also contains
hyperlinks to the American Physiological Society.
Circulation
http://www.biol.lu.se/zoofysiol/Dyk/summary.html
This website deals with the diving response in mammals. it explains
what the diving response is and how it helps diving mammals to
prolong their stay underwater. this was made by a research group,
and it shows the results of their research.
http://www.cyber-north.com/anatomy/circulat.htm
This site explains the anatomy of circulatory system. It also
explains how blood is circulated throughout the body. It also
gives statistics and diagrams about the circulatory system.
http://mail.fkchs.sad27.k12.me.us/fkchs/vpig/circ.htm
a website on the circulatory system. The website gives three layouts
of a pig. The first picture is a diagram of the pig's major arteries.
The next picture is a diagram of the major veins of the fetal
pig. The last picture is a
diagram of the heart of the pig from a dorsal view. Each diagram,
however, is labeled with the prospective artery or vein.
http://www.encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/4D/04D74000.htm
This website is very informative about the circulatoruy system.
It gives an overall introduction about the circulatory system
and the components and their operations and functions. It mentions
the
systemic and pulmonary circulations. The website briefly discuss
blood pressure and the effects of high and low blood pressure.
It talks about circulatory system disorders and it even mentions
the circulatory system in nonhumans.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/heart_background.html
A website of interest on circulation talked about earlier studies
of how doctors came to describe what circulation was and how it
worked, and it also talked of a man who did experiments dealing
with circulation.
http://umbc7.umbc.edu/~farabaug/sokolo3.html
Website with very good lecture type notes and outline of the Circulatory
System.
http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/weller/+docs/cvheart3.htm
Summary: This website fully explains the cadiac cycle and how
it works and what to do when pressure changes, such as artial
pressure and ventricular pressure during the cardiac cycle.
http://www.prenhall.com/~bookbind/pubbooks/martini4/
The name of the website I decided to review in dealing with the
cirucaltory system is a website out up by Pretice HAll. At this
website you can click on several things dealing with blood vessels,
the heart, and the overall circualtory system.
http://www.msms.doe.k12.ms.us/biology/anatomy/circulatory/circulatory.html
This site lets you research the heart, blood vessels, cardiac
condition system. The site contains diagrams to give an upclose
view of the heart and other areas of circulation. This site also
contains hyperlinks to explain in detail about each subject addressed
on the website ( heart, blood vessels, cardiac system).
http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
This web site lets you explore the heart, its developement, structure,
body systems, history etc. It also has a preview gallery.
Digestion
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/herbivores/
On this website there are concepts in digestive physiology about
the digestive anatomy in Ruminants, digestive function of horses
etc. The section on the horse digestion talks about the anatomy
of the Equine gastrointestinal tract. It also has diagrams of
the horse digestive tract.
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/M/Metabolism.html
This website gives difinitions for metabolism, catabolism, and
anabolism. It contains diagrams explaining the digestion process.
It also has places that you can click on that go into more detail
about related topics such as nutrition.
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/digest/pubs/factfall/factfall.htm
This website deals with the most popular digestive diseases. it
explains the different diseases and also explains some misconceptions
about them.
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/herbivores/horses.html
This website deals with the digestive function of horses.
Horses have no forestomach and therefore perform fermentation
in their large intestine. The horse has a massive and complex
large intestine.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/anatomy/digestion.shtml
The website gave biological information about sharks,dinosaurs,whales,
birds and etc. It talked about the different methods used to capture
their prey, the sizes and shapes of their teeth, and it also gave
colorful pictures of the digestion system, which it also gave
ample information about.
http://www.juiceguy.com/healthinfo/digest.html
This website explains the process that happens right after you
put food in your mouth. It also talks about poor diets and digestive
problems. This site has many links to other sites with related
topics.
http://www.spiralnotebook.org/foundmissing/index.html
This website describes Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase Deficiency.
This is a rare genetic disorder of fat metabolism that causes
muscle breakdown. The website gives information on symptoms, medical
news, treatments, medicines, and diet.
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~bi107vc/sp99/saul/nutri1.html
This is a website on vertebrate nutrition. The website covers
three main categories. The types of digestive systems in animals
is one. The processing of food molecules by the digestive tract
and vertebrate digestive system- upper digestive tract is the
other. The website is very simple and very brief.
http://usa.biologists.com/JEB/198/06/jeb9745p.html
This website really is a journal article on experimental biology.
This article deals with the adaptive responses to feeding in Burmese
pythons. It starts off by giving you a summary of how they came
up with their evidence. It says how they measured gut contents,
O2, consumption rates, small intestinal brush border
uptake rates of amino acide and glucose, organ masses and blood
chemistry in pythons during the 30 days following ingestion of
meals equivalent to 25% of their body mass.
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