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PHYSIOLOGY
•Functional Organization of the Human
Body
•Homeostasis
What is Physiology?
Physiology: biological sciences
• Dealing with the normal life phenomena exhibited by all living
organisms.
Goal of physiology
“Explain the physical and chemical factors that are responsible for the origin,
development and progression of life”
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Human Physiology
Organisms
Organ
(Human body)
Tissues Organs systems
Cells
Organ Systems In Review
• Circulatory
• Digestive
• Endocrine
• Immune
• Integumentary
• Musculoskeletal
• Nervous
• Reproductive
• Urinary
Figure 1-2
• About 60 per cent of the adult human body is fluid, mainly a water
solution of ions and other substances.
Extracellular fluids
Intracellular
fluid
intravascular compartment
Interstitial compartment
Transcellular compartment
ECF ICF
Contains large amount of Contains large amont of
Sodium, chloride, potassium , magnesium and
bicarbonate ions and phosphate ions.
nutrients for cells like
oxygen, glucose and amino
acids. Also contains waste
materials like carbon-
dioxide and other waste
products from kidneys.
Concept of Homeostasis
• Definition: A dynamic steady state of the
constituents in the external fluid environment
(the ECF) that surrounds and exchanges
materials with the cell.
• “Maintenance of nearly constant conditions
in the internal environment". Guyton. A.C.)
• Maintenance of the homeostasis essential for
survival and normal functioning of cell.
Homeostasis
⚫Essentially all organs and tissues of the body perform
functions that help maintain these constant
conditions.
⚫For instance, the lungs provide oxygen to the
extracellular fluid to replenish the oxygen used by
the cells, the kidneys maintain constant ion
concentrations, and the gastrointestinal system
provides nutrients.
Concept of Homeostasis
Cannon WB: The wisdom of the body. New York, 1932,
WW Norton.
•Successful compensation
• Homeostasis
reestablished
•Failure to
compensate
•Pathophysiolo
gy
•Illness
•Death
Factors Homeostatically Regulated
1. Concentration of nutrients.
2. Concentration of O2 and CO2
3. Concentration of waste products.
4. Levels of pH.
5. Concentration of water, salt and other
electrolytes.
6. Volume and pressure.
7. Temperature.
Homeostatic regulation of
volume and pressure
Homeostasis:
A framework for human physiology
Regulation of homeostasis by
Negative feedback
1. Definition–
change in a factor (controlled variable) triggers a
physiological response that seeks to restore the
factor by OPPOSING the initial change
2. Example—
control of room/body temperature
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The homeostatic control system: example
2. Examples—
A. blood clotting
B.Opening of Na channels in action potential
generation
C. in the birth of a baby; how?
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Positive Feedback:
Stimulatory.
Stimulus trigger mechanisms that amplify the
response and reinforces the stimulus.
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Importance:
Significance Of Feedback-forward/Adaptive
Feedback Control