Eckert Animal PhysiologyThis classic animal physiology text focuses on comparative examples that illustrate the general principles of physiology at all levels of organisation—from molecular mechanisms to regulated physiological systems to whole organisms in their environment. This textbook is an authoritative and complete guide to the field of animal physiology which uses a threefold approach to teaching. The Comparative Approach emphasises basic mechanisms but allows patterns of physiological function in different species to demonstrate how evolution creates diversity. This approach encourages students to appreciate the underlying principles that govern physiological systems. The Experimental Emphasis helps students to understand the process of scientific discovery and shows how our knowledge of physiology continually increases and finally the Integrative Approach presents information about specific physiological systems at all levels of organisation, from molecular interactions to interactions between an organism and its environment.n included. |
Contents
Brief Contents PART 1 PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY | 1 |
Studying Animal Physiology | 3 |
THE SUBDISCIPLINES OF ANIMAL | 4 |
THE LITERATURE OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL | 10 |
Contemporary Experimental Methods for Exploring Physiology | 17 |
FORMULATING AND TESTING HYPOTHESES | 38 |
Molecules Energy and Biosynthesis | 41 |
Nucleic Acids | 52 |
Hair Cells | 240 |
The Structural and Functional Organization of the Nervous System | 277 |
Glands and Hormones | 301 |
Muscles and Animal Movement | 361 |
Initiation Patterns and Control | 425 |
INTEGRATION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS | 471 |
Circulation | 473 |
Animal Physiology and the August Krogh Principle | 491 |
ENERGETICS OF LIVING CELLS | 59 |
GENERAL PROPERTIES | 65 |
Membranes Channels and Transport | 79 |
OSMOTIC PROPERTIES OF CELLS | 88 |
Spotlight 41 Artificial Bilayers | 94 |
MEMBRANE SELECTIVITY | 100 |
PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES | 111 |
The Physical Basis of Neuronal Function | 113 |
MEMBRANE EXCITATION | 118 |
Communication Along and Between Neurons | 155 |
Membrane Resistance and Conductance | 173 |
Spotlight 101 | 176 |
Sensing the Environment | 215 |
Common Mechanisms and Molecules of Sensory | 218 |
TASTE | 230 |
Swimming | 502 |
Experimental Design and Levels of Biological | 503 |
Gas Exchange and AcidBase Balance | 525 |
Pulmonary Circulation | 550 |
Ionic and Osmotic Balance | 579 |
Feeding Digestion and Metabolism | 631 |
Body Size Locomotion and Reproduction | 667 |
Measuring Metabolism from | 670 |
Circadian Rhythms | 689 |
Energetic Costs of Meeting Environmental Challenges | 699 |
of Different Cells | 701 |
POPULAR MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES | 702 |
Common terms and phrases
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