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Fundamentals of Physiology and Medicine
Lecture 1: Introduction to Anatomy and its tools
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Required Reading: Tools of Cell Biology
Extra reading (and viewing): Art and Disease,
Nobel Prize lectures of Albert Claude, George Palade, and Christian de Duve,
Michelangelo and anatomy
Lecture 2: Introduction to Histology
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Required Reading: Cell adhesion, extracellular matrix
Extra reading (and viewing): whale desmosomes, exploding teeth
Lecture 3: Introduction to Histology contd
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Required Reading: Junquiera's basic histology text and atlas 15th Ed: Chapter 5-Connective tissue;
Extra reading (and viewing): Origami in science, new organs, The World under a microscope, cystoscopy
Lecture 4: Introduction to musculoskeletal tissues
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Required Reading: Smooth muscle, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle (only the structure part of the chapter), bone
Extra reading (and viewing): Phineas Gage, B-Z reaction and excitability
Lecture 5: Introduction to human embryology
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Required Reading: Basics of human embryology
Extra reading (and viewing): Otger Campas's work
Lecture 6: human embryology continued
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Required Reading: gastrulation 101
Extra reading (and viewing): New research on gastrulation, ethics of life
Lecture 7: cardiovascular system
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Required Reading: cardiac histology, blood vessel histology (excluding tissue preparation)
Extra reading (and viewing): angiography, aneurysm rupture, A study in scarlet,
Lecture 8 and 9: respiratory system
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Required Reading: basic facts on respiration, basic facts on respiration part 2
Extra reading (and viewing): breathing for runners, breathing during swimming
Lecture 10 and 11: digestive system
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Required Reading: basic facts on digestion
Extra reading (and viewing): endoscopy, nice animation on digestion
Lecture 12 and 13: renal system
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Required Reading: kidney, urinary bladder
Extra reading (and viewing): cystoscopy, Interesting House episode
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