BIOL373 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cerebellum, Second Messenger System, Enzyme
26 Jan 2016
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Cell-to-cell communication: signal transduction, modulation of signal pathways, cannon"s postulates, neural, endocrine and neuroendocrine reflex pathways. The science of the mechanical, physical, bioelectrical and biochemical functions of in good health, their organs and the cells of which they are composed . The science of the function of living systems . Our understanding of human" physiology is based on animal experimentation. It is possible to study physiological processes at the mechanistic level (as a scientist or as a student) without understanding (or caring about) the why" at the level of the organism. Maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment (especially ecf) 1854: claude bernard la fixite du milieu interieur : had an idea of a stable environment. Homeo" rather than homo similar, though not the same o: coined term homeostasis, wrote a book that expanded on bernard"s concept of homeostasis, came up with fight or flight response. Disease results from a failure to compensate for.
