Course Description |
The module encompass topics: oxygen and carbon dioxide transport and exchange, control of respiration, aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, classes of nutrients, basal metabolic rate, body mass index, physiological effects of fasting and starvation, iron deficiency anaemia, water and electrolyte balance and imbalance due to vomiting and diarrhoea, renal control of water and electrolytes, renal failure, pH balance, metabolic alkalosis and acidosis, glucose metabolism and diabetes, nuclear and cell divisions, genetic disorders, thalassaemia, Down's syndrome, undifferentiated, unregulated cell division, tumour formation, infection and defence
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