Talk:Physiology

This article did not exist after the initial unforking from Wikipedia. I am beginning to write it. Please join me!Nancy Sculerati MD 17:47, 26 January 2007 (CST)

Ok, I'll join in a lot more once I see a structure or outline. -Tom Kelly (Talk) 17:48, 26 January 2007 (CST)

redirects

How do you do a redirect so pathophysiology and physiopathology don't have 2 articles started - they should just be the same thing, but I want to link them both. -Tom Kelly (Talk) 18:04, 26 January 2007 (CST)

Pathophysiology, physiopathology

I don't know. I have never heard the term physiopathology. I am placing the word bank below - it's a great idea -but it should be in discussion.

Yeah, I just figured that discussions never get erased and we could just edit things out as we went along. Also by having many == == you can edit one part without interrupting the other persons edits.

check stedmans for the syn. "pathologic physiology. that part of the science of disease concerned with disordered function, as distinguished from anatomic lesions. SYN: physiopathology." -Stedmans electronic medical dictionary.

It's just my ignorance! :-) but it could also be a term that is not used much...Nancy Sculerati MD 18:22, 26 January 2007 (CST)

word (and idea) bank for this article

general physiology hominal physiology comparative physiology

biochemistry / biochemical components (make-up)

make link to Physiology as a degree/major/field of study

major systems studied. renal physiology,

These days a common approach is to deal with physiology by levels: molecular physiology cellular physiology systems physiology the term integrative physiology is sometimes used (as in the Centre to which I belong) to describe approaches that try to linl across levels. Historically, physiology embraced many subjects like biochemistry, pharmacology and immunology that are now regarded as quite separate disciplines. For some, what still distinguishes physiology is the concept of physiological relevance - i.e. the need to show how an observed mechanism or phenomenon is involved in the normal function of the organism involved. Thus a pharmacological response merely demonstrates the presence of functional receptors, a physiological response entails showing the involvement of an endogenous ligand in an effect that has demonstrably adaptive consequences. A major late offshoot of physiology is biophysics. Major names in the history of physiology in the first half of the 20th century might include Hodgkin and Huxley (physiology of the nervous impulse), Starling (endocrine scretions), Ringer (frog heart), Katz (neuromuscular junction), Adrian (nerve impulses), Sharpey-Shafer (adrenals and other endocrine systems), Sherrington (spinal reflexes), Dale (transmitter release), Eccles (synapses), Geoffrey Harris (neuroendocrine systems) (a very UK-centric list of our glory days), but also Nernst, Cajal, Banting and Best, Howard Florey....Gareth Leng 18:35, 26 January 2007 (CST)