Sumários

Water and Salt Physiology

13 Dezembro 2021, 14:00 Carlos Gravato

Food and drinking water. Metabolic water

Organs of blood regulation. Osmotic and ionic U/P ratios

Cell volume regulation: osmolytes and compatible solutes

Animals in freshwater. Passive water and ion exchanges: Freshwater animals tend to gain water by osmosis and lose major ions by diffusion

Animals in the Ocean

Invertebrates, teleost and elasmobranch fish

Fish mitochondria-rich cells

Salt glands in marine birds, reptiles and elasmobranch fish

Marine mammals


Tratamento de dados obtidos com a câmara de Ussing

7 Dezembro 2021, 18:00 Iris Alexandra Lopes da Silva

- Lei de Ohm para o cálculo de resistência e corrente

- Análise dos dados obtidos na aula prática - Estrutura do relatório


Tratamento de dados obtidos com a câmara de Ussing

7 Dezembro 2021, 17:00 Iris Alexandra Lopes da Silva

- Lei de Ohm para o cálculo de resistência e corrente

- Análise dos dados obtidos na aula prática - Estrutura do relatório


Channelopathies I

7 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Iris Alexandra Lopes da Silva

Diseases caused by ion channel malfunction 

1. Cystic Fibrosis – dysfunctional chloride ion (Cl- ) channel CFTR – the role of sodium ion (Na+) channel ENaC in CF lung disease 
2. Dravet syndrome – dysfunctional Na+ ion channel SCN1A


Circulatory system

6 Dezembro 2021, 14:00 Carlos Gravato

The heart as a pump. The dynamics of the left side of the human heart.

Miogenic and neurogenic hearts

Total fluid energy of blood

Macrocirculation and microcirculation

The circulatory plan in vertebrates and invertebrates

Open circulation in invertebrates

Water, salts and excretion: introduction and mechanisms

Osmoregulators and osmoconformers

Ionic regulators and conformers

Volume regulators and exceptions