This textbook is designed to provide a concise summary of medical physiology especially for Chinesemedical students to facilitate them to improve their ability of reading English textbooks.Up till now,we are using Chinese as teaching language in universities across China.Textbooks are also written inChinese.Since globalization has now penetrated all aspects of human society, and medical education cannot be left untouched, we become clearer that English as a universally used language in science i

SECTION Ⅰ INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY
1.1 WHAT IS PHYSIOLOGY?
1.2 CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR FLUID
1.3 HOMEOSTASIS
1.4 THE CONTROL SYSTEMS
SECTION Ⅱ PHYSIOLOGY OF THE CELLS
CHAPTER 2 TRANSPORT ACROSS CELL MEMBRANES
2.1 CELL MEMBRANE
2.2 MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS
2.3 ION CHANNELS
2.4 Na+-K+ ATPase
2.5 SECONDARY ACTIVE TRANSPORT
2.6 ENDOCYTOSIS AND EXOCYTOSIS
CHAPTER 3 INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION
3.1 RECEPTORS FOR HORMONES, NEUROTRANSMITIERS, AND OTHER LIGANDS
3.2 MECHANISMS BY WHICH CHEMICAL MESSENGERS ACT
3.3 INTRACELLULAR Ca2
3.4 G PROTEINS
3.5 INOSITOL TRIPHOSPHATE AND DIACYLGLYCEROL
3.6 ADENYLYL CYCLASE AND CYCLIC AMP
3.7 GUANYLYL CYCLASE AND CYCLIC GMP
3.8 GROWTH FACTORS
CHAPTER 4 ELECTRICAL PHENOMENA OF THE NERVE CELLS
4.1 RESTING MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
4.2 ACTION POTENTIAL
4.3 ELECTROTONIC POTENTIALS AND LOCAL RESPONSE
4.4 CHANGES IN EXCITABILITY DURING ELECTROTONIC POTENTIALS AND THE ACTION POTENTIAL
CHAPTER 5 CONTRACTION OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLE
5.1 NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION
5.2 CONTRACTILE RESPONSES
SECTION Ⅲ BLOOD
CHAPTER 6 THE CoMPoSITIoN oF BLooD
6.1 PLASMA
6.2 GENESIS OF BLOOD CELLS
6.3 RED BLOOD CELLS
6.4 WHITE BLOOD CELLS
6.5 PLATELETS
CHAPTER 7 HEMoSTASiS
7.1 EVENTS INHEMOSTASIS
7.2 BLOOD CLOTTING
7.3 FIBRINOLYSIS
CHAPTER 8 BLooD TYPES
8.1 THEABO SYSTEM
8.2 THE Rh SYSTEM
SECTIoNⅣ CIRCULATIoN
CHAPTER 9 ELECTRICAL PRoPERTIES oF THE CARDIAC MUSCLE
9.1 INTRODUCTION
9.2 RESTING MEMBRANE POTENTIAL AND ACTION POTENTAL
9.3 0RIGINAND SPREAD OF CARDIAC EXCITATION
CHAPTER 1O THE ELECTRoCARDIoGRAM
10.1 BIPOLARLEADS
10.2 UNIPOLARLEADS
10.3 NORMALECG
10.4 BIPOLAR LIMB LEADS AND THE CARDIAC VECTOR
CHAPTER 11 THE HEART AS A PUMP
11.1 MORPHOLOGY OF THE CARDIAC MUSCLE
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SECTION Ⅴ RESPIRATION
SECTION Ⅵ GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTIONS
SECTION Ⅶ ENERGY METABOLISM AND BODY TEMPERATURE
SECTION Ⅷ FORMATION AND EXCRETION OF URINE
SECTION Ⅸ PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SENSE ORGANS
SECTION Ⅹ FUNCTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
SECTION Ⅺ ENDOCRINOLOGY
SECTION Ⅻ REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION