ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physiology
Areas: Physiology
Center Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Competences and learning outcomes:
1. Know the essential neuroendocrine processes that maintain body homeostasis.
2. Approach the most important concepts of Neuroendocrinology from an experimental point of view. Become familiar with how the hypothalamus and pituitary can be studied
3. Being able to make critical judgments about hypotheses, experimental proposals or experiments in the field of Neuroendocrinology. Be able to design experiments using the techniques of this science to answer relevant scientific questions.
4. Learn to work in a team. Be able to communicate proposals, experiments, results, conclusions and criticisms in the field of Neuroendocrinology.
5. Acquire the learning skills necessary to keep up-to-date in the field of Neuroendocrinology and its techniques.
Contents:
1. Introduction to the Neuroendocrine System. Concept of neuroendocrine axes. Regulation of hormonal secretion.
2. Neuroendocrine anatomy of the hypothalamus and pituitary. Blood brain barrier.
3. Neurohormones and their receptors. Action mechanisms.
4. Biological rhythms. Origin of "biological clocks". Circadian and infradian rhythms.
5. Osmoregulation and homeostasis of body fluids.
6. Somatotropic axis. Physiological functions of growth hormone (GH). Regulation of GH secretion. GH secretion abnormalities.
7. Adrenal axis. Synthesis and secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Functions of mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoids. Abnormalities of adrenocortical secretion.
8. Thyroid axis. Regulation of the synthesis and secretion of thyroid hormones. Physiological functions of thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormone secretion abnormalities.
9. Gonadal axis and reproduction. Neuroendocrine control of reproductive function. Gestation and lactation.
10. Regulation of body temperature. Fever.
It will be indicated in the course.
Specified in the first section.
Lectures and seminars with the participation of teachers and students.
In the Teaching Methodology and in the Learning Assessment System, both synchronous and asynchronous telematic means will be used in order to contemplate the possibility of implementing the three possible scenarios:
normality, scenario 2 and scenario 3
In case of scenario 2, the master classes will be carried out electronically and the seminars in person. In scenario 3 all the activity will be telematic.
Continuous evaluation. The students will develop different activities and active participation in class will be valued.
It is a 3 ECTS credit subject.
Recommended prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Neuroanatomy, Endocrinology, Neuroendocrinology and Molecular Biology.
Contingency Plan
In the Teaching Methodology and in the Learning Assessment System, both synchronous and asynchronous telematic means will be used in order to contemplate the possibility of implementing the three possible scenarios:
normality, scenario 2 and scenario 3.
Rosa Maria Señaris Rodriguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881815442
- rosa.senaris [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Carlos Dieguez Gonzalez
- Department
- Physiology
- Area
- Physiology
- Phone
- 881812258
- carlos.dieguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 09:30-10:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | R.N.S.-Classroom 10 |