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1. Circulatory system, heart and blood
a. Blood cells, blood vessels, systemic circulation
b. blood function
2. Immune system:
a. innate response
b. adoptive response
3. Cyrculation
4. Respiration
a. alveolar and lung ventilation ventilation
b. gas exchange, Oxygen transport and carbon dioxide
c. Lung volumes and capacities
5. Excretory system: The kidney
a. elements of renal function, primary urine formation
b. urine formation: glomerular filtration, reabsorption, and secretion.
c. Regulation of acid-base balance (pH), volume of liquid.
6. Nervous system
a. central and peripheral nervous system
b. autonomic nervous system
c. somatic nervous system
d. sensory nervous system
e. synapses
f. nerves
g. Higher function of nervous system
7. Motor system
a. skeletal muscle
b. neuro muscolar junction
c. synaptic transmision
d. muscle contraction
8. Food and nutrition
a. Effects of nutritional components
b. Regulation of appetite
c. chemical and mechanical digestion,
d. peristalsis, absorption of nutrients
e. Digestive glands
f. Digestive enzymes and hormones
g. Digestion processes
9. Endocrine system
a. Endocrine organs and hormones: hypothalamus, hypophysis, epiphysis
b. thyroid glands,
c. adrenal glands
d. placenta
e. excretion of hormones (positive and negative feedback)
10. Reproductive system
a. Puberty
b. sexual reproduction and reproductive glands
c. Menstruation cycle, pregnancy, parturition, menopause.