VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY AND ENDOCRINOLOGY
cod. 1004811

Academic year 2012/13
2° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisiologia veterinaria (VET/02)
Field
Discipline della struttura e funzione degli organismi animali
Type of training activity
Basic
60 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: VETERINARY PHYSIOLOGY AND ENDOCRINOLOGY

Learning objectives

at the end of the course tha student has to know the mechanism of the control of the function of the body

Prerequisites

Veterinary Phyisiology I and ethology

Course unit content

RENAL PHYSIOLOGY The kidney function and the mineral bilance of the organism. The control of acid and basic balance of the body
THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM. Hormones and their activity.
THE METABOLISM
REPRODUCTION Reproduction physiology: puberty, oestrus, placenta and its functions, pregnancy, post partuma.
PHYSIOLOGY OF LACTATION: Lactation physiology in raising breast, lactogenesis, milk ejection, metabolic and environmental aspects. Managemnet of fertility in the farm
THE CONTROL OF BODY TEMPERATURE

Full programme

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Bibliography

material from the lecture
Bortolami Fisiologia degli animali domestici il sole 24 ore edasgricole
• Gobetto, Pelagalli, Anatomia e Fisiologia degli Animali Domestici, UTET
• Guyton, A. Trattato di Fisiologia Medica,.C., PICCIN, Padova.
• Cunningham,J.G., Texbook of Veterinary Physiology, Saunders Company, USA.
De Rensis Fisiologia degli animali domestici
• Duke's, Physiology of Domestic Animals, Melvin, J.S., Cordell University press.
• Eckert R, Fisiologia animale, Zanichelli, Bologna.
• Moruzzi G. Fisiologia della vita di relazione, UTET, Torino.
• Gordon Fisiologia Animale Piccin
• Schmidt Nielsen Fisiologia Animale Piccin

Teaching methods

theorical and practical lecture

Assessment methods and criteria

written and oral exams

Other information

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