BioSci E183-Physiology of Exercise
The ability to perform exercise is of paramount importance to most animals, and physiological and structural limitations dictate many aspects of animal behavior and their natural history. This course will, through comparisons of different animal species, highlight the common physiological mechanisms that are shared among diverse organisms in response to activity. The course will contain elements of endocrinology, neurophysiology, respiratory physiology, exercise-metabolic physiology as well as biochemistry, and it will emphasize, when possible, multiple levels of biological organization, integrating organismal function with cellular and molecular mechanisms.
