Instructor: Jean Hardwick
	Office: CNS 168
	phone: 274-3213
	email: jhardwick@ithaca.edu

This course focuses on the physiological adaptations of animals to different environmental stresses.  In the process, we hope to understand the basic principles underlying such physiological systems as the nervous system, movement (muscles), cardiovascular systems, respiratory systems, digestive systems, endocrine systems, fluid balance, temperature regulation, and reproduction.  We will compare how different animals achieve the same general function (that is, homeostasis) under vastly different conditions.  For example, fish, insects, and mammals all must maintain a constant source of oxygen to survive.  Each organisms has developed vastly different anatomical mechanisms to achieve this function.  However, the underlying principles governing oxygen delivery are the same for all three animals.

Course Materials

• Course syllabus & policies
• Lecture Schedule
• Laboratory Schedule

 
• Review Sheets
• Nervous System
• Muscle
• Kidney
• Digestion
• Temperature Regulation
• Endocrine

DIAGRAMS:

• Major arteries of a rat
• Viseral structures in rats
• Female urogenital system
• Male urogenital system
• Heart
• Digestive system
• Male urogenital organs
• Female urogenital organs

• Neuroscience for Kids
• Virtual Body
• Nobel Prize Winners
• St. Michael's College Animal Physiology Study Guide
• American Heart Association
• Neurosciences on the Internet (collection of websites related to all aspects of Neuroscience, including diseases)