MVSTIA Homeostasis
Course organiser: Dr C. Schwiening (email: cjs30@cam.ac.uk)
In Homeostasis, you study the physiological systems which underpin the body's regulation of its internal environment and its responses to external threats. This includes nerve function, neuromuscular transmission, muscle, circulation, respiration, excretion, water balance, digestion, absorption, metabolism and thermoregulation. There are related practical classes in experimental physiology and histology (the microscopic structure of tissues).
Useful web-sites
- www.cam.ac.uk is the University URL, and gives direct access to official University information, including extracts from the Reporter and searchable lists of e-mail addresses. It is also the quickest way to get to the international search engines, of which Google at present seems the best, and to the various library catalogues.
- www.pdn.cam.ac.uk is Physiology, with links to information about teaching and research. The MVSTIA link takes you to information about this course, including this handbook and the Collected Questions, and also allows you to leave longer, (anonymous) comments on our teaching. There is also a page of links of physiological interest, information about Part II Physiology, and much else.
- www.bio.cam.ac.uk/sbs/facbiol The official web-page for the Cambridge Medical and Veterinary Course.
- www.medschl.cam.ac.uk is the Cambridge Clinical School.
- www.vet.cam.ac.uk Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road
- www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/medsoc/index.htm The University Medical Society
- www.vet.cam.ac.uk/CUVZS Cambridge University Veterinary Zoological Society (links to other veterinary sites)
- www.physoc.org/links/ a list of Physiology departments
- www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk has more medical links.
- www.biolinks.net.ru is a very comprehensive Russian site
- www.sciencekomm.at/journals/medicine/anatomy.html a list of online journals
- medweb.bham.ac.uk/caa/mcq/users/preset.html a set of MCQs from Birmingham
- www.bma.org.uk is the British Medical Association, with useful medical links.
- www.rcvs.org.uk/ The Royal College of Vet Surgeons
- Quick Links
- An introduction to electrical circuits, and their use in physiology
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