This course is a general physiology course designed to train 
Veterinary Professional and Graduate students in principles of 
general physiology to allow them to succeed in upper-level 
clinical and graduate courses.  This course will serve as a 
prerequisite for many upper-level Professional and Graduate 
courses.  Grading is accomplished by examination at 
approximately 3- to 4-week intervals with a cumulative final 
exam.  

Learning outcomes will include development of an active 
approach to learning physiology that will lead to successful 
completion of advanced courses and degree programs.  This 
active approach to learning basic physiological principles and 
incorporating new information pertinent to these principles 
will allow future graduates to use physiological evidence as 
one of the bases to solve clinical problems in Veterinary 
Medicine as well as provide a rational basis for design of 
research experiments in physiology.

SEMESTER 1 (4 hours)		
		
Lectures 1-24	Membrane Potential, Membrane Physiology, 
Biochemistry	
	*membrane function, potential & action potential	
	*Blood Cells	
	*Proteins, Lipids & Carbohydrates	
		
Lectures 25-36	Cardiovascular	
	*Heart,Cardiac Muscle, ECG	
	*Vascular control	
		
Lectures 37-45	Respiratory	
	*Mechanics of breathing	
	*Gas exchange and regulation of breathing	
		
Lectures 45-60	Renal Physiology & Fluid Balance	
		

Students will be tested approximately every 15 lectures with 
cumulative final exams at the end of each semester.

Graduate students will be required to participate in additional 
neurophysiology material.