Physiology Laboratories

Physiology Laboratories

OBJECTIVES:

The physiology laboratories are designed to help you achieve the following goals:

- to become familiar with some of the equipment and procedures used by physiologists

- to demonstrate some of the concepts and mechanisms being studied in lecture

- to apply knowledge gained in lecture to explain the results of the experiments

POLICIES:

g Laboratory attendance is mandatory. If you must miss a lab, you are expected to make up the missed

work by attending an alternate lab section with permission of the lab instructor. Excessive lab swapping

is not permitted. For each lab absence after the first, 10 points will be deducted from the final lab grade.

Homework assignments for missed labs will not be accepted.

g You are expected to read through the material to be covered before coming to lab. Prelab quizzes are on WebCT

for the upcoming lab. The quiz will be available on the Friday before the lab until 7am on the morning of the lab.

You can take the quiz as many times as you want. The highest grade will count. Your prelab quiz average will count

as a quiz in your lab grade.

g There will be an in class quiz at the beginning of each laboratory. The quiz will cover the previous lab.

There are no make-up quizzes but the lowest lab quiz will be dropped.

g Most labs will require a lab report. Some labs will require individual lab reports and some labs will require one

lab report per group. Lab reports are due the week after the lab is performed. They will not be accepted late.

GRADING:

10% Lab reports

10% Quizzes

5% Final lab practical exam

25% (The lab grade is 1/4 of the final grade for your course)

You must earn a passing grade in the laboratory to pass the course.

LABORATORY SCHEDULE SPRING 2008

Lab Dates	Topics	Text from Fox *	Text from Yordy **
Jan 22, 23, 28	Safety, Metric, Measurement, Graphing	exercise 1.1 (B) p 3-4	pp 2 - 18
Jan 29, 30, Feb 4	Homeostasis, Hemoglobin Curve, Spectrophotometry	exercise 1.3 (B) pp 23 - 26 exercise 6.1 (C) pp 169 - 170	pp 19 - 22 pp 23 - 28
Feb 5, 6, 11	Diffusion, Osmosis, Tonicity, Dialysis	exercise 2.6 (A,B,C) pp 67 - 72	pp 29 - 36
Feb 12, 13, 18	Enzymes	exercise 2.4 (A) pp 55 - 57 exercise 10.2 (A) pp 312 - 315	pp 37 - 39
Feb 19, 20, 25	Cutaneous Receptors, Reflexes	exercise 3.3 (A,B) pp 93 - 96 exercise 3.4 (A,B,C,D) pp 99 - 104	pp 40 - 56, insert
Feb 26, 27, Mar 3	Special Senses	exercise 3.5 (A,B,C,D,F,G) pp 108 - 116 exercise 3.6 (A,B) pp 119 - 123 exercise 3.7 pp 126 - 128	pp 56 - 58
Mar 4, 5	Skeletal Muscle Physiology	exercise 5.2 pp 149 - 151	physio ex handout
	Spring Break
Mar 17 (Mar 18, no class)	Skeletal Muscle Physiology	exercise 5.2 pp 149 - 151	physio ex handout
Mar 24, 25, 26	Blood	exercise 6.1 (B,D) pp 166 - 171 exercise 6.2 (B) pp 175 - 178 exercise 6.3 (A,B) pp 182 - 185	pp 69 - 76
Mar 31, Apr 1, 2	Cardiac Physiology	exercise 7.1 (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) pp 195 - 200	pp 76 - 84
Apr 7, 8, 9	Cardiovascular Physiology	exercise 7.2 pp 204 - 210 exercise 7.6 pp 229 - 232,	pp 85 - 93
Apr 14, 15, 16	Respiratory Physiology	exercise 8.1 pp 241 - 253 exercise 8.2 pp 257 - 261 exercise 8.4 (A,B,C) pp 270 - 273	pp 94 - 110
Apr 21, 22, 23	Urinary Physiology	exercise 9.1 pp 282 exercise 9.3 (A,B,C,D,E,F) pp 291 - 296	pp 111 - 114
Apr 28, 29, 30	LAB PRACTICAL (Cumulative)

*Human Physiology Custom Lab Guide 2005 (excerpts from Laboratory Guide: Human Physiology,

Concepts and Clinical Applications, S.I.Fox, 10^th ed. 2003)

** Human Physiology Workbook by Dr. Denise Yordy

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