Health-Sciences - Course - PHYSIOLOGY

This course explains the blood including composition, function of red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets, homeostasis, and blood groups; cardiovascular system including properties of cardiac muscle, cardiac output, heart rate and its regulation, the arterial blood pressure, tissue fluid formation and edema; respiration including mechanics of pulmonary ventilation, pulmonary function tests, diffusion and transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide, control of breathing; endocrine glands including thyroid gland, adrenal gland, calcium metabolism and endocrine pancreas; body temperature and its regulation; sports physiology including cardiovascular and respiratory changes during exercises.