Postgraduate Physiology: Recent Advances

Written for postgraduate physiology students, each chapter in the book provides the latest review articles presented in a textbook format. Information culled from scores of review articles and original articles has been distilled and condensed into approximately 10-page write ups. Besides postgraduate students, members of faculty in physiology departments would also find this book a simple path for updating their knowledge on the subject. A large number of simple illustrations help to clarify the text. Some of the topics covered in book are:: Exercise hyperpnea. Molecular mechanism of smooth muscle contraction. Non-motor functions of basal ganglia. Thermoregulatory pathways. Neurobiology of sleep-wakefulness. Neurobiology of circadian rhythms. Executive functions of prefrontal cortex. Kisspeptins. Natriuretic peptides.