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Host Kevin Patton previews the content of the upcoming full episode, which focuses on the big ideas (essential concepts) of the A&P course.
There's more... a few content updates... plus some word dissections, a toast to Elaine Marieb, and a recommendation from The A&P Professor Book Club.
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Topics
.5 minute
- News about how smell relates to stress
- News about how oxytocin works
- Cholesterol testing for cardiac risk - are changes coming?
- Big ideas - the essential concepts of A&P
Word Dissections
9.5 minutes
- Dissection
- Section
- Concept
- Gradient
- Apolipoprotein B (ApoB)
Elaine Marieb
1.5 minute
- A toast to the late Elaine Marieb
- Elaine Marieb obituary my-ap.us/MariebObit
Book Club
3.5 minutes
- The Core Concepts of Physiology: A New Paradigm for Teaching Physiology
- by Joel Michael , William Cliff, Jenny McFarland, Harold Modell, Ann Wright
- Book details:
- Published on behalf of APS The American Physiological Society by Springer
- APS members: my-ap.us/CoreConceptsBook
- Bookstore: amzn.to/2GJd2Rb
- 15 core concepts of physiology
- Explanations and applications of a concept-based approach to the physiology course
- Concepts:
- Evolution
- Homeostasis
- Causality
- Energy
- Structure/function
- Cell theory
- Levels of organization
- Cell–cell communication
- Cell membrane
- Flow down gradients
- Genes to proteins
- Interdependence
- Mass balance
- Physics/chemistry
- Scientific reasoning
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