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Home >>  Subjects during the four-year study of B. Physiotherapy>> Human Physiology
 
General Physiology
1. Cell Structure and organelle.
2. General Principles of Biophysics.
3. Body Fluid compartments.
Blood
1. Composition of blood, plasma, protein formation and their function.
2. Structure formation and functions of R.B.C.
3. Structure formation and functions W. B. Cs. and platelets.
4. Coagulation and its defects - bleeding & clotting time.
5. Blood groups and their significance Rh. Factor.
6. Reticulo endothelial system, Jaundice, Structure and functions of spleen.
7. Hemoglobin and E.S.R.
Cardiovascular System
1. Structure .properties of Heart muscle and nerve supply of heart, structure and function of arteries, capillaries and veins.
2. Cardiac cycle and heart sounds.
3. Cardiac output measurement, factors affecting it.
4. Heart rate and its regulation, cardio vascular regulation.
5. Blood pressure its regulations and physiological variations.
6. Peripheral resistance, factors controlling, role in B.P.
7. Hemorrhage.
8. Changes hi muscular exercise.,
Respiratory System
1. Mechanism of respiration, Intra-pleural and intra pulmonary pressure.
2. Lung volumes and capacities.
3. 02 and CO2 carriage and their exchange in tissues and lungs.
4.
Nervous & chemical regulation of respiration - Respiratory centers, Respiratory state - Anoxia, Asphyxia, Cyanosis, Acclimatization.
Digestive System
1. General outline and salivary digestion.
2. Gastric secretion and its mechanism of secretion and functions.
3. Mechanism of secretion of succus entericcus and pancreatic juice and its functions.
4. Structure, Secretions and Functions of liver.
Nutrition
1. Digestion, absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates.
2. Digestion, absorption and metabolism of fats.
3. Digestion, absorption and metabolism of proteins.
4. Vitamins, sources, functions and resources.
5. Balanced diet in different age group and occupation.
Endocrine system
1. Anterior pituitary
2. Post Pituitary and parathyroid.
3. Thyroid
4. Adrenal Cortex.
5. Adrenal Medulla, Thymus.
6. Pancreas and Blood sugar Regulation.
Reproductive System
1. Sex determination and development, puberty.
2. Male sex hormones and their functions, spermatogenesis.
3. Female sex hormones and functions, menstrual cycle, ovulation and contraceptives.
4. Pregnancy, functions of placenta and lactation.
Excretory System
1. Gross and minute structure of kidney and features of renal circulation.
2. Mechanism of formation of Urine, G.F.R. and Tubular function.
3. Renal function tests.
4. Physiology of micturtion.
Neuro Muscular Physiology
Muscle and Nerve
1. Structure of neurons, membrane potential and generation of action potential.
2. Nerve impulse conduction, saltatory conduction.
3. Neuromuscular junction and drugs acting on it - Myasthenia gravis.
4. Degeneration and regeneration in peripheral nerves - Wallerian degeneration, electro tonus and flagers law.
Muscle
1. Type of muscles and their gross structure, stimulus, Chronaxie, strength duration curve.
2. Structure of Sarcomere - basis of muscle contraction, Starlings law, changes during muscle contraction.
3. Electrical - Biphasic and monophasic action potentials.
4. Chemical, Thermal and physical changes isometric & isotonic contraction.
5. Motor units and its properties. Clonus, tetanus, all or none law, beneficial effect.
6. Nature of voluntary contraction ,fatigue.
Nervous System
1. Types and properties of receptors, types of sensations.
2. Structure of synapse, reflex arc and its properties, occlusion summation, sub minimal fringe etc.
3. Tracts of spinal cord.
4. Descending tracts, pyramidal and extra pyramidal tracts.
5. Hemi section and complete section of spinal cord. Upper and lower motor neuron paralysis.
6. Cerebral Cortex, areas and functions — E.E.G.
7. Structure, connections and functions of cerebellum.
8. Basal ganglia and thalamus, connections and functions.
9. Reticular formation, tone, posture and equilibrium.
10. Autonomic Nervous System.
Special Senses
1. Broad features of eye, errors of refraction, lesions of visual pathways.
2. Speech and its disorders.
3. Ear and vestibular apparatus.
Practical & Demonstrations
A. 1. Haemoglobinometer and total R.B.C. Count.
  2. Total W.B.C.Count.
  3. Preparation and staining of Blood smears, determination of differential W.B.C.Count.
  4. Blood Grouping.
  5. Erythrocyte Sedimentation rate.
  6. Bleeding and clotting time.
B. 1. Artificial Respiration.
  2. Pulmonary function tests. .
C. 1. Heart Sounds.
  2. Arterial Blood pressure in man.
  3. Cardiac Efficiency tests.
  4. Recording and study of Electrocardiogram.
D. 1. Testing of peripheral sensations and cranial nerves.
  2. Superficial and deep reflexes.
  3. Tests of Cerebral and Cerebellar functions.
E.
Varieties of stimuli, electrical apparatus for physiological experiment. Frogs Nerve- muscle preparation and demonstration of the following experiments on it
  Simple muscle twitch.
  Effect of load, temperature and fatigue on muscular contraction Frog's normal cardiogram.
 
Effect of following on normal cardiogram of Frog :
1. Temperature.
2. Extra systole.
3. Stimulation of vagosympathetic trunk.
4. Radial pulse tracing.
5. Basal metabolic rate.
6. Work physiology.
 
   
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