1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Seminar	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To learn and analyze the approach to treating diseases in humans by applying knowledge gained from studying physiological mechanisms in animals, with an emphasis on animal models in nature.

COURSE CONTENT:
The teaching is conducted in a way that first the lectures are condensed, followed by student seminars.

LECTURES:
1) Introduction into Comparative physiology, value of animal models in applied physiology and clinical medicine
2) Diabetes mellitus bird`s adaptation to high blood glucose
3, 4). Chronic renal failure in humans Hibernation in mammals and adaptation of nitrogen metabolism,
5) Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease atherosclerosis in mammals
6) Fish as natural animal model in atherosclerosis
7) Disuse osteoporosis and Disuse Muscle Atrophy and physiological adaptation of naturally immobile animals
8) Ammonia tolerance, metabolism and ammonia toxicity
9) Ammonia and the fish CNS
10) Hypoxia ischemia and physiological adaptations in animals
11) High altitude accommodation and diseases
12) Deep sea workers and animals adapted to deep sea environment
13) Thermal tolerance and cryogenics
14) Ageing and long living
15) Future studies on animal models in applied physiology


SEMINARS:
Seminars are organized in such a way that topics are agreed upon in cooperation with students, according to their interests. Students work on two topics, one developed at the level of the higher education profile of the audience, and the other at the level of knowledge of the general population. A group of ideally three students works on each seminar topic, in communication with the subject teachers.

1. Comparative Physiology, Natural Animal Models and Clinical Medicine - Insight into Clinical Medicine from Animal Adaptations. Imperial College Press, Covent Garden, London, England, Michael A Singer, Imperial College Press, Covent Garden, London, England, 2007.
2. Comparative Animal Physiology. 2nd edition., Philip C Withers, Saunders College Publishing, USA., 1992.
3. Eckert Animal Physiology 5th Ed., Randall D, Burggren W, French K, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York., 2004.
4. Principles of Animal Physiology, 2nd edition., Moyes CD, Schulte PM, Pearson Education, Harlow, England, 2014.

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