This course of Animal Physiology II aims to provide you with the theorical knowledge and practical capacities, in order to transfer them in practise, targeting specific systems: the digestive tract and the endocrine system.
New theorical and practical learnings of animal physiology II are built on previous fundamentals of chemistry, histology, anatomy as well as splanchnology. Mastering those basics in morphology and sciences is therefore essential to better understand the mechanisms described for the digestive and endocrine system during pedagogical activities of animal physiology II. You will be stimulated to integrate your learnings of the targeted systems in physiological and pathological context. By all the learning activities, the teaching team aims to help you to have an overview of the living animal, and to connect those learnings to basic sciences and to further clinical practice in vet master.
Pedagogical activities aim you to reach those objectives:
Learning activities targeting the endocrine and digestive systems aim to link physiological concepts and the body systems (digestive, endocrine, cardio-vascular, respiratory). This is a nice introduction to your future courses in internal medicine and nutrition.
This course adds new knowledge and competencies to the Animal Physiology I (cellular, cardio-vascular and respiratory), by introducing you to the physiology of the endocrine and digestive systems.
Lectures aim to provide you with the functions of the different part of the digestive tract, with focus on the digestion of food (from food to nutrient and use). Regulatory mechanisms are developed in the endocrine-targeted courses. Various learning activities will enable you to understand theorical concepts and to link them to practical activities (either in the university, or in your future curriculum in master). This link is important for your long-lasting learning of the animal physiology.
Physiology of the digestive tract
Basics of the digestive tract
Ingestion
Gastro-intestinal system : regulation and motility
Physiology of the stomach
Physiology of the small intestine
Physiology of the colon
Rectum and continency
From food to nutrient
Absorption
New born specificities
(non) Ruminants specificities
Birds
Physiology of the endocrine system
Basics
Feedback concept
Hypothalamus, pituitary, and….
Thyroïd gland
Adrenal glands
Pancreas
Liver
Endocrinology of the reproductive tract
Applied physiology
Physiological responses to pathological mechanisms
Integrated view of the digestive and endocrine systems
Activities (called, in French, travaux dirigés et travaux pratiques) include learning practical handling of animals to specifically investigate digestive/endocrine systems, working on clinical cases during seminars, stimulating reminiscence of learning and transferring them to professional situations, but also connecting learning of different systems.
Activities will also be the opportunity for you to exercise your soft skills, organization, communication, presentation (oral, written), as well as animal handling and clinical exam.
Assessment, at the end of the learning period, is done for all teaching activities and for all learning outcomes (knowledge, understanding, transfer, and practice).
Examination is done through oral and written exam. Written part will mainly be associated to description of mechanisms, transfer of knowledge to cases, schematisation of combined mechanisms or synthesis of the response to a physiological or pathological situation. Oral exam will mainly assess the ability to perform an act (part of the clinical exam), to perform and/or interpret results (with motivated answer), and to apply knowledge to clinical case. Success to both is mandatory for validation of the course.
Fundamental knowledge in chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, splanchnology, and histology are required to understand and build the knowledge and practice of the Integrated physiology lecture.
Pedagogical contents are provided by the teaching team on the Webcampus platform. This may include (and not limited to) : slides, videos, audio. This ensures you, as a vet student, have access to the main content of the course.
References for further reading may be provided by the teaching team. A list of reference textbook of physiology is provided as example, below:
Sjaastad, O. V., Sand, O., & Hove, K. (2010). Physiology of domestic animals. Scan. Vet. Press.
Klein, T. B. G. (2012). Cunningham's textbook of veterinary physiology-E-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Those books are available upon request at the library.
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| Training | Study programme | Block | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelier en médecine vétérinaire | Standard | 0 | 5 | |
| Bachelier en médecine vétérinaire | Standard | 2 | 5 |