Medical physiology is known to be a complex area where students develop significant errors in conceptual understanding. Students' knowledge is often bound to situational descriptions rather than underlying principles. This study explores how medical students discern and process underlying principles in physiology. Indepth interviews, where students elaborated on principles related to blood pres...

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

Medical physiology is one of the defining courses of the first year of medical school. One might argue that is the most "important" course in the first-year curriculum, for obvious reasons. It is also one of the most challenging. Finding a textbook is often difficult, as many professors prefer to use their own lecture notes, suggesting a textbook as an additional reference and giving little gui...

The study of hemodynamic physiology utilizing traditional methods presents many challenges and limitations to educators. The goal of the educator is to provide the student with an adequate understanding of the basic hemodynamic anatomy and physiology governing blood flow, cardiac cycle and associated Korotkoff sounds, and the pathophysiology of vessel-related diseases. Several teachable moments...

Zhongjie Sun, Carol Moreno, Jia L. Zhuo, Lance Miller, and Bina Joe Physiological Genomics Group, American Physiological Society; Department of Physiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackso...

Abstract Background Human actions have altered natural ecosystems worldwide. Among the many pollutants released to environment, ionizing radiation can cause severe damage at different molecular and functional levels. The accident in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (1986) caused largest release of environment human history. Here, we examined impact current exposure on blood physiology biomarkers a...