Human Physiology

The course aims to provide students with the scientific and cultural tools to understand:
i) the functioning, in normal conditions, of organs and systems of the human body;
ii) the mechanisms of homeostatic and allostatic control, the chemical-physical and functional organization of the organism;
iii) the physiological means allowing the organism to maintain a functional relationship with the environment.

Students:
a) correlate the structure and normal functionality of the organism;
b) know the molecular, cellular and chemical-physical mechanisms that maintain the homeostasis;
c) understand the adaptive mechanisms through which the living organism maintains a homeostasis in a continually changing environment.