This textbook is designed to provide the fundamentals of human physiology to students of pharmacy and other health sciences. An important goal of this book is to enhance students’ perceptions of the relevance of physiology to pharmacy practice. The book includes important concepts in physiology described in sufficient detail so that the student may integrate and understand these principles and then be able to apply them in subsequent course-work in pharmacology and therapeutics. Furthermore, this text contains frequent and specific references to pharmacotherapeutics and the practice of pharmacy designed to facilitate students’ understanding of basic physiological concepts and their pertinence to their chosen profession.

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Here’s why this is the best edition of Ganong’s ever:

• NEW full-colour illustrations — the authors have worked with an outstanding team of medical illustrators, photographers, educators, and students to give you an unmatched collection of illustrations and tables
• NEW boxed clinical cases – featuring examples of diseases that illustrate important physiological principles
• NEW end-of-chapter board review questions
• IPod-compatible review – questions and illustrations from each chapter test your comprehension of the material
• Companion online learning center includes cases, illustrations, and board review questions (langemedicaltextbooks.com)

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The level of the book is meant to be midway between an oversimplified review book and an encyclopaedic textbook of physiology. Each chapter is written by medical school faculty members who have had many years of experience teaching physiology and who are experts in their field. They have selected material that is important for medical students to know and have presented this material in a concise, uncomplicated, and understandable fashion.

This book begins with a discussion of basic physiological concepts, such as homeostasis and cell signalling, in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 covers the cell membrane, membrane transport, and the cell membrane potential. Most of the remaining chapters discuss the different organ systems: nervous, muscle, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and reproductive physiology. Special chapters on the blood and the liver are included. Chapters on acid-base regulation, temperature regulation, and exercise discuss these complex, integrated functions. The order of presentation of topics follows that of most United States medical school courses in physiology. After the first two chapters, the other chapters can be read in any order, and some chapters may be skipped if the subjects are taught in other courses (e.g., neurobiology or biochemistry). Material on pathophysiology is included throughout the book. This not only reinforces fundamental physiological principles but also demonstrates the relevance of physiology to an understanding of numerous medically important conditions.

This second edition incorporates many features that should aid the student in his or her study of physiology:

• Chapter outline. The outline at the beginning of each chapter gives a preview of the chapter and is a useful study aid.
• Key concepts. Each chapter starts with a short list of key concepts that the student should understand after reading the chapter.
• Text. The text is easy to read, and topics are developed logically. Difficult concepts are explained clearly, often with the help of figures. Minutiae or esoteric topics are avoided.
• Topic headings. Second-level topic headings are active full-sentence statements. For example, instead of heading a section “Homeostasis,” the heading is “Homeostasis is the maintenance of steady states in the body by coordinated physiological mechanisms.” In this way, the key idea in a section is immediately obvious.
• Boldfacing. Key terms are boldfaced upon their first appearance in a chapter.
• Illustrations and tables. The figures have been selected to illustrate important concepts. The illustrations often show interrelationships between different variables or components of a system. Many of the figures are flow diagrams, so that students can appreciate the sequence of events that follow when a factor changes. Tables often provide useful summaries of material explained in more detail in the text.
• Clinical focus boxes. Each chapter contains one or two clinical focus boxes that illustrate the relevance of the physiology discussed in the chapter to an understanding of medicine.
• Case studies. Each section concludes with a set of case studies, one for each chapter, with questions and answers. These case studies help to reinforce how an understanding of physiology is important in dealing with clinical conditions.
• Review questions and answers. Students can use the review questions at the end of each chapter to test whether they have mastered the material. These USMLE-type questions should help students prepare for the Step 1 examination. Answers to the questions are provided at the end of the book and include explanations as to why the choices are correct or incorrect.
• Suggested readings. Each chapter provides a short list of recent review articles, monographs, book chapters, classic papers, or Web sites where students can obtain additional information.
• Abbreviations and normal values. This second edition includes a table of common abbreviations in physiology and a table of normal blood, plasma, or serum values. All abbreviations are defined when first used in the text, but the table of abbreviations in the appendix serves as a useful reminder of abbreviations commonly used in physiology and medicine. Normal values for blood are also embedded in the text, but the table on the inside of the front cover provides a more complete and easily accessible reference.
• Index. A complete index allows the student to easily look up material in the text.

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The most significant feature of this book is its clear, up-to-date, accurate explanations of mechanisms, rather than the mere description of facts and events. Because there are no limits to what can be covered in an introductory text, it is essential to reinforce over and over, through clear explanations, that physiology can be understood in terms of basic themes and principles. As evidenced by the very large number of flow diagrams employed, the book emphasizes understanding based on the ability to think in clearly defined chains of causal links. This approach is particularly evident in our emphasis of the dominant theme of human physiology and of this book—homeostasis as achieved through the coordinated function of homeostatic control systems.

To repeat, authors have attempted to explain, integrate, and synthesize information rather than simply to describe, so that students will achieve a working knowledge of physiology, not just a memory bank of physiological facts. Since the book aim has been to tell a coherent story, rather than to write an encyclopaedia, authors have been willing to devote considerable space to the logical development of difficult but essential concepts; examples are second messengers (Chapter 7), membrane potentials (Chapter 8), and the role of intrapleural pressure in breathing (Chapter 15). In keeping with author goals, the book progresses from the cell to the body, utilizing information and principles developed previously at each level of complexity. One example of this approach is as follows: the characteristics that account for protein specificity are presented in Part One (Chapter 4), and this concept is used there to explain the “recognition” process exhibited by enzymes. It is then used again in Part Two (Chapter 7) for membrane receptors, and again in Part Three (Chapter 20) for antibodies. In this manner, the student is helped to see the basic foundations upon which more complex functions such as homeostatic neuroendocrine and immune responses are built.

Another example: Rather than presenting, in a single chapter, a gland-by-gland description of all the hormones, we give a description of the basic principles of endocrinology in Chapter 10, but then save the details of individual hormones for later chapters. This permits the student to focus on the functions of the hormones in the context of the homeostatic control systems in which they participate.

Another example: Rather than presenting, in a single chapter, a gland-by-gland description of all the hormones, we give a description of the basic principles of endocrinology in Chapter 10, but then save the details of individual hormones for later chapters. This permits the student to focus on the functions of the hormones in the context of the homeostatic control systems in which they participate.

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The 5th English edition has been thoroughly revised in terms of content and organization of the didactic material; almost all of the color illustrations have been drawn anew for improved clarity. The extensive introductory chapter focuses on aspects of cytophysiology. Owing to the considerably expanded text and improved illustrative material, functional connections are easily recognized; new concepts and current advances in research are taken fully into account.

Main features are:

General and cellular physiology; Nerve and muscle; Autonomic nervous system; Blood; respiration; Acid-base balance; Kidney salt and water balance; Heart and circulation; Thermal balance and thermoregulation; Nutrition and digestion; Hormonal control; Central nervous system and senses.

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