Bios 442 -- Animal Physiology I: Nerve & Muscle Physiology -- Fall 1997

Course Information

Instructors:

Chris Comer

(office = 4283 SEL,
996-2992)
 

Thom Park

(office = 4278 SEL,
413-3020)
 

Paul Malchow

(office = 233 LIERI,
996-2025)
     

Teaching Assistants:

Michele Halvorsen

(office = 4284 SEL,
413- 9624)
 

Sue Koester

(office = 4294 SEL,
996- 2787)
 

Thomas Kotsos

(office = 3462 SES,
719- 1957)

Lectures: 1-2 P.M. Mon./Wed./Fri. Lecture Center B1

Discussions: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., or 2 P.M. Tues./Thurs. 115 SH

[some weeks you will be doing hands-on labs and you will meet in a teaching lab (3069 SEL) -- your TAs will inform you the week before, or faculty will inform you in lecture on Monday if you are to go to SEL or SH]

Textbooks:

Required

"Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior"
By E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, T.M. Jessel,
Appleton & Lange (1995) -- [K]
   

"Nerve & Muscle"
R.D. Keynes, D.J. Aidley
Cambridge University Press (1991) -- [KA]
 

Reserve

"Cellular Physiology of Nerve and Muscle"
(2nd ed.) By G.G. Matthews, Blackwell
Scientific Pubs. (1991)
   

"The Physiology of Excitable Cells" (3rd ed.)
By D.J. Aidley, Cambridge Univ. Press (1989)
   

"Principles of Neural Science"
By E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, T.M. Jessel
Appleton & Lange (1991)

Course Syllabus

DATE

TOPIC

READING

     

Week 1

(Comer)

  

8/25-29

Evolution & Structure of Nervous Systems

K: Chs. 1,2
     
     

Week 2

(Comer)

  

9/1
9/3-5

LABOR DAY [no classes]
Cell Biology of Neurons & Glia

KA: Chs. 1,2
K: Chs. 3,4,5

     
     

Week 3

(Park)

  

9/8-12

Composition of intra/extracellular fluids
Membrane potential

K: Ch. 7,8
KA: Ch. 3
     
     

Week 4

(Park)

  

9/15-19

Membrane potential and passive
properties of nerve/muscle

K: Ch. 8,9
KA: Ch. 6
     
     

Week 5

(Park)

  

9/22-24
9/26

Action potentials
FIRST HOUR EXAM (covers weeks 1-4)

K: Ch. 10
KA: Ch. 4, 5
     
     

Week 6

(Comer)

  

9/29-10/3

Synapses: neuromuscular junctions

K: Ch. 11, 12
KA: Ch. 7

     
     

Week 7

(Park)

  

10/6-10

Synapses: central integration

K: Chs. 13,14
KA: Ch. 8
     
     

Week 8

(Park)

  

10/13-17

Synapses: control of release

K: Chs. 15,16
     
     

Week 9

(Comer)

  

10/20-24

Sensory systems: general principles/somatosensory function

K: Ch. 20
     
     

Week 10

(Park)

  

10/27-29
10/31

Sensory systems: hearing/equilibrium
SECOND HOUR EXAM (covers weeks 5-9)

handout
     
     

Week 11

(Malchow)

  

11/3-7

Sensory systems: vision

K: Chs. 21, 22, 23
     
     

Week 12

(Comer)

  

11/10-14

Cell biology of muscle/
Muscle action

K: Chs. 26, 27
KA: Chs. 9,10
     
     

Week 13

(Comer)

 

11/17-21

Reflexes & lower level integration

K: Ch. 28
     
     

Week 14

(Comer)

  

11/24-26
11/28

Higher level control of movement
DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING [no classes]

K: Ch. 29
     
     

Week 15

(Park)

  

12/1-5

Cells to Cognition

K: Chs. 18,19
     
     

FINAL EXAM:

Monday, 8 December

1:00 P.M.

Grading: 1st hour exam=25%, 2nd hour exam=25%, Final exam=35%, discussion/quizzes=15%

MAKE-UP EXAMS ARE NOT GIVEN