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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

302420 (v.2) Physiological Concepts 205

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 10.0
Individual Study: 1 x 10 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 8472 (v.12) Physiology 231 or any previous version
AND
301425 (v.4) BIO20 Physiological Concepts or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version
OR
Admission into 302395 (v.2) Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences) or any previous version
OR
311022 (v.1) Human Biology 130 or any previous version
OR
6934 (v.4) Human Biology 136 or any previous version
OR
302415 (v.2) Structure and Function of the Body 107 or any previous version
Syllabus: 1. Cellular Physiology: Cell membrane structure and composition; active and passive mechanisms of membrane transport. Membrane potential. Transport of water and solutes across epithelia. Cellular metabolism. 2. Nerve/Muscle Physiology: Action potentials; neuromuscular transmission; ANS function; pacemaker cells in heart and smooth muscle. Skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle: structure to function. Digestive tract motility. 3. Secretion and absorption: Cellular mechanisms of absorption (kidney and gallbladder); mechanisms of secretion (salivary, pancreatic and stomach glands; kidney). 4. Cellular Communication: Chemical signaling; paracrines and endocrines; receptors and signal transduction; intracellular messengers; chemistry, structure and sythesisof hormones; principles of endocrinology. 5. Endocrine physiology: Hypothalamopituitary interactions; thyroid and parathyroid hormones; adrenal hormones; LH and FSH regulation of reproduction; reproductive hormones; gastro-intestinal hormones. 6. Energymetabolism: Endocrine control during absorptive and post-absorptive states; fuel homeostasis and metabolic rate; total body energy balance; body temperature regulation.
Field of Education: 060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External