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Human Physiology [electronic resource] / edited by Robert F. Schmidt, Gerhrad Thews.

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This book, intended primarily as a comprehensive textbook of human physiology for medical students has been thoroughly revised. So that recent findings could be included in a volume of manageable size, the subject matter has been reorganized and partially condensed. General aspects of cell physiolog...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Schmidt, Robert F.
Other Authors: Thews, Gerhrad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1989.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Human physiology.
Table of Contents:
  • I. General Physiology of the Cell and of Intercellular Communication
  • 1 Fundamentals of Cell Physiology
  • 2 Information Transfer by Electrical Excitation
  • 3 Transmission of Excitation from Cell to Cell
  • II. Motor and Integrative Functions of the Nervous System; Muscle Physiology
  • 4 Muscle
  • 5 Motor Systems
  • 6 Integrative Functions of the Central Nervous System
  • 7 The Nervous System in the Context of Information Theory
  • III. General and Special Sensory Physiology
  • 8 General Sensory Physiology
  • 9 The Somatovisceral Sensory System
  • 10 Nociception and Pain
  • 11 The Sense of Sight
  • 12 Physiology of the Sense of Equilibrium, Hearing and Speech
  • 13 Taste and Smell
  • 14 Thirst and Hunger: General Sensations
  • IV. Neuronal and Hormonal Regulatory Processes
  • 15 General Principles of Regulation
  • 16 Autonomic Nervous System
  • 17 Endocrinology
  • V. Blood and the Circulatory System
  • 18 Functions of the Blood
  • 19 Function of the Heart
  • 20 Functions of the Vascular System
  • VI. Respiration
  • 21 Pulmonary Respiration
  • 22 Blood Gas Transport and Acid-Base Balance
  • 23 Tissue Respiration
  • VIL Energy Balance, Work, and Environment
  • 24 Energy Balance
  • 25 Thermal Balance and the Regulation of Body Temperature
  • 26 Work Physiology
  • 27 Environmental Physiology
  • VIII. Nutrition, Digestion and Excretion
  • 28 Nutrition
  • 29 Functions of the Alimentary Canal
  • 30 The Function of the Kidneys
  • 31 Water and Electrolyte Balance
  • IX. Reproduction, Pregnancy and Aging
  • 32 Sexual Functions
  • 33 Reproduction and Pregnancy
  • 34 Aging and Old Age
  • Physiological Units.

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