Вид документа : Однотомное издание Шифр издания : 612/G97 Автор(ы) : Guyton, Arthur C. Заглавие : Textbook of Medical Physiology . -8th ed Выходные данные : Philadelphia; London: Saunders W. B. : A PRISM Indian Edition, 1996 Колич.характеристики :1014 с ISBN, Цена 0-7216-5944-6: 62.50, 180.00, р. УДК : 612 + 612(075.8)=111 MeSH-главная: ФИЗИОЛОГИЯ -- PHYSIOLOGY Аннотация: Each time I revise this Textbook of Medical Physiology, I think that someday physiology will become a completely mature subject without change from year to year. However, this always proves to be far from the truth. Physiology is a vast discipline, and only now are we beginning to make inroads into many of its fundamental secrets. Most importantly, within the past few years many new techniques for learning cellular and molecular physiology have become available. Therefore, more and more can we present physiological principles in molecular and physical terms, rather than merely as a series of separate biological phenomena. This change we all welcome, but it is also a change that makes necessary the revision of virtually every chapter in this text with each new edition. The beauty of physiology is that it attempts to integrate the individual functions of all the body’s different cells and organs into a total functional whole, the human or animal body. Indeed, the life of the human being relies upon this total function, not on the functions of the single parts in isolation from the others. This brings us to another entirely different subject: How are the separate organs and systems controlled in a way that no one system overfunc-tions while others fail to provide their share? Fortunately, the body is endowed with a vast network of feedback mechanisms that account for the necessary balances, without which we would not be able to live. Physiologists call this high level of internal bodily control homeostasis. In disease conditions, more often than not the functional balances become seriously disturbed—that is, homeostasis becomes very poor. When the disturbance is too great, the total body can no longer live. Therefore, one of the principal goals of any medical physiology text is to explain and emphasize the effectiveness and beauty of the body’s homeostatic mechanisms, as well as to discuss their aberrant function in disease. Экземпляры :ІЛ(1) Свободны : ІЛ(1)