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Regulation of Physiological Functions in Human Body
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:3.00
Study Course Accepted:13.02.2024 15:53:04
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LU_005 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Biology; Human and Animal Physiology | Target Audience: | |||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Lolita Vija Neimane | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences | ||||||||
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| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 18 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 36 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 48 | ||||||||
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| Preliminary Knowledge: | |||||||||
| Objective: | |||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Physiological Functions and Their Control | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| 2 | Neuronal Control of Physiological Functions | Lectures | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 3 | Gastrointestinal Functions and Their Control | Lectures | 3.00 | other | |||||
| 4 | Hormonal Control of Physiological Functions | Lectures | 4.00 | other | |||||
| 5 | Human Energy Metabolism | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||||
| 6 | Body Energy Stores and Hormonal Control of Their Metabolism | Lectures | 2.00 | other | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | other | |||||||
| 7 | Control of Feeding Behavior | Lectures | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 8 | Immunophysiological functions | Lectures | 2.00 | other | |||||
| 9 | Physiology of Stress | Lectures | 1.00 | other | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students' independent work is organized individually and/or in small work groups. The tasks of student's independent work are to: 1. acquire study and scientific literature related to the topics of the study course; 2. create protocols of the three laboratory work with extended analysis of the obtained results, discussion and conclusions; 3. complete one online test in the e-learning environment (outside classes time). | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1. Participation in all three laboratory works and written protocols of laboratory works - 30%. 2. One online test in e-studies environment - 20%. Final assessment: 3. A written final examination - 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | 1. Student knows the human neuro-hormonal structures and functional anatomy of the digestive system; 2. Student understands the diverse control mechanisms of physiological functions, with emphasis on the digestive function and metabolic homeostasis; 3. Student knows the basic immune physiological processes in the human organism. | ||||||||
| Skills: | 1. Student chooses and uses simple anthropometric measuring devices to determine a human physical status; 2. Student determines the somatotype using anthropometric measurements; 3. Student determines the human metabolic intensity with both calculation and nomogram methods, and using the indirect calorimetry method. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | 1. student integrates knowledge of the diverse mechanisms of physiological function control to characterize processes of food intake and digestive function in the human organism; 2. student explains and integrates the results of anthropometric and metabolic measurements to evaluate the risk of cardio-metabolic diseases; 3. student analyses and explains the results of anthropometric measurements in accordance with the standards used in Latvia/ Europe and the world. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Aivars J.I., Ozoliņa-Moll L. Fizioloģisko funkciju regulācija cilvēka organismā, Uzturzinātnes studentiem, 2007, LU Apgāds, Rīga. | ||||||||
| 2 | Aivars J.I. Fizioloģijas terminu skaidrojošā vārdnīca: Veģetatīvās funkcijas; Hormonālā regulācija; Imūnfizioloģija, 2002, Rīga, LU. | ||||||||
| 3 | Aberberga-Augškalne L., Koroļova O. Fizioloģija ārstiem, 2007, 2014, Medicīnas apgāds, Rīga. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Guyton A.C., Hall J.E. Textbook of Medical Physiology,14th ed. 2020, W.B.Saunders Company. | ||||||||
| 2 | Floch M. Netter's Gastroenterology, 3rd ed. 2019, Elsevier, pieejams Clinical Key datu bāzē. | ||||||||
| 3 | Gerald L. Human Biochemistry, 2018, Elsevier/Academic Press. | ||||||||
| 4 | Larsen P.R., Kronenberg H.M., Melmed S., Polonsky K.S. Williams Textbook of Endrocrinology, 10th ed. 2002, W.B.Saunders Company. | ||||||||
| 5 | Mulroney, S.E., & Myers, A. (2016). Netter’s Essential Physiology. 2nd ed., Elsevier, 424 p. Pieejama ClinicalKey datu bāzē. | ||||||||
| 6 | Zariņš Z., Neimane L.V., Bodnieks E. Uzturta mācība, 6.izdev. 2015, Rīga, LU akadēmiskais apgāds. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Journal of Physiology (Wiley-Blackwell; The Physiological Society; UK) | ||||||||
| 2 | Journal of Applied Physiology (American Physiological Society) | ||||||||
| 3 | British Journal of Nutrition (Cambridge University Press; The Nutrition Society; UK) | ||||||||
| 4 | American Journal of Nutrition (American Society for Nutrition) | ||||||||
| 5 | www.ploome.com | ||||||||
| 6 | www.healthline.com/nutrition | ||||||||
