Pocket Companion to Guyton & Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology.

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Front Cover; IFC1; IFC2; NOTE TO INSTRUCTORS; Pocket Companionto Guyton and Hall Textbookof Medical Physiology; Copyright; Contributors; Preface; Contents; Unit I -- Introduction to Physiology: The Cell and General Physiology; Chapter 1 -- Functional Organization of the Human Body and Control of the "Internal Environment"; MECHANISMS OF HOMEOSTASIS-MAINTENANCE OF NEARLY CONSTANT INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (p. 4); CONTROL SYSTEMS OF THE BODY (p. 6); SUMMARY-AUTOMATICITY OF THE BODY (p. 10); Chapter 2 -- The Cell and Its Functions; ORGANIZATION OF THE CELL (P. 11); PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CELL (P. 12).

FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE CELL (P. 19)Chapter 3 -- Genetic Control of Protein Synthesis, Cell Function, and Cell Reproduction; TRANSLATION-SYNTHESIS OF POLYPEPTIDES ON RIBOSOMES FROM GENETIC CODE IN MRNA (P. 33); CONTROL OF GENE FUNCTION AND BIOCHEMICAL ACTIVITY IN CELLS (P. 35); THE DNA-GENETIC SYSTEM CONTROLS CELL REPRODUCTION (P. 37); Unit II -- Membrane Physiology, Nerve, and Muscle; Chapter 4 -- Transport of Substances Through Cell Membranes; DIFFUSION (P. 47); "ACTIVE TRANSPORT" OF SUBSTANCES THROUGH MEMBRANES (P. 54); Chapter 5 -- Membrane Potentials and Action Potentials.

BASIC PHYSICS OF MEMBRANE POTENTIALS (P. 61)RESTING MEMBRANE POTENTIAL OF NEURONS (P. 63); NEURON ACTION POTENTIAL (P. 65); PROPAGATION OF THE ACTION POTENTIAL (P. 69); SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN NERVE TRUNKS (P. 71); Chapter 6 -- Contraction of Skeletal Muscle; PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY OF SKELETAL MUSCLE (P. 75); GENERAL MECHANISM OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION (P. 77); MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION (P. 78); ENERGETICS OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION (P. 82); CHARACTERISTICS OF WHOLE MUSCLE CONTRACTION (P. 83).

Chapter 7 -- Excitation of Skeletal Muscle: Neuromuscular Transmission and Excitation-Contraction CouplingTRANSMISSION OF IMPULSES FROM NERVE ENDINGS TO SKELETAL MUSCLE FIBERS: THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION (P. 89); MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL (P. 93); EXCITATION-CONTRACTION COUPLING (P. 93); Chapter 8 -- Excitation and Contraction of Smooth Muscle; CONTRACTION OF SMOOTH MUSCLE; NERVOUS AND HORMONAL CONTROL OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION (P. 102); Unit III -- The Heart; Chapter 9 -- Cardiac Muscle; The Heart as a Pump and Function of the Heart Valves.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF CARDIAC MUSCLE COMPARED WITH SKELETAL MUSCLE (P. 109)THE CARDIAC CYCLE (P. 113); REGULATION OF HEART PUMPING (P. 119); Chapter 10 -- Rhythmical Excitation of the Heart; SPECIALIZED EXCITATORY AND CONDUCTIVE SYSTEM OF THE HEART (P. 123); CONTROL OF EXCITATION AND CONDUCTION IN THE HEART (P. 126); Chapter 11 -- The Normal Electrocardiogram; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC LEADS (P. 134); Chapter 12 -- Electrocardiographic Interpretation of Cardiac Muscle and Coronary Blood Flow Abnormalities: Vectorial Analysis; PRINCIPLES OF VECTORIAL ANALYSIS OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS (P. 139).

Conditions that cause abnormal voltages of the qrs complex (p. 147).

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