Physiology Assignment

Assignment 1.0

1. Write down transport across cell membrane.

2. Phagocytosis

3. Active transport

4. Passive transport

5. Homeostasis

Assignment 2.0

1. Write down classification and functions of plasma proteins.

2. Functions of blood

3. Write a note on erythropoesis. Factors affecting erythropoesis

4. Classify Anaemia and write down clinical features of Iron deficiency and Pernicious Anaemia.

5. Classify WBC

6. Define Immunity. Types of Immunity. Differentiate between Innate and Acquired Immunity

7. Humoral Immunity

8. Cell Mediated Immunity

9. Write a note on Hemostasis

10. Write mechanism of Coagulation of blood.

11. Write down Landsteiner law and blood group system

12. Blood transfusion reactions

13. Erythrobloastesis foetalis or RH incompatibility

Assignment 3.0

1. Define sarcomere and draw the structure of sarcomere.

 2. Properties of skeletal muscle.
3. Write down structure of neuromuscular junction. Transmission across neuromuscular
junction.
4. Myasthenia gravis
5. Duchenne muscular dystrophy
6. Excitation contraction coupling theory.
7. Sliding filament theory / walk along theory / ratchet theory
8. EMG

Assignment 4.0

1. Functions of saliva
2. Functions of gastric juice and regulation of gastric secretion
3. Swallowing reflex
4. Functions of pancreatic juice
5. Function of bile / chloretics/ cholagogues
6. Functions of liver
7. G.I. Movements
8. Defecation reflex
9. Jaundice

Assignment 5.0

1. Draw the structure of nephron and write non excretory functions of kidney.

2. Define GFR. Factors affecting GFR and regulation of GFR.

3. Machanism of urine formation

4. Tubular secretion and Reabsorption

5. JG apparatus and Renin Angiotensin Mechanism

6. Counter current mechanism

7. Micturition reflex.

Assignment 6.0

1. Write down Mechanism of Action of hormones.

2. Functions of growth hormone with applied

3. Neuroendocrine reflex : Functions of oxytocin

 4. Function of ADH / mechanism of concentration of urine (also write assignment 5.0 question
5) and Diabetes Insipidus

5. Synthesis of thyroxine hormone and functions of thyroxine

6. Grave’s disease

7. Cretinism and Myxoedema

8. Functions of Parathormone / calcium metabolism ( from biochemistry syllabus)

9. Functions of Insulin

10. Diabetes mellitus

11. Functions of glucocorticoids and Cushings disease

12. Aldosterone

Assignment 7.0

1. Functions of testes

2. Write down a note on spermatogenesis and factors affecting spermatogenesis.

3. Spermeogenesis and Capacitance

4. Draw a diagram of mature sperm and write composition of semen.

5. Functions of testosterone.

6. Functions of estrogen

7. Functions of progesterone

8. Write in detail, Menstrual cycle / Ovarian cycle/ Uterine cycle/ endometrial cycle with
changes in hormone level.

9. LH surge and ovulation

10. Contraceptives

Assignment 8.0

1. Write in detail Cardiac cycle. Describe volume and pressure changes during ventricular
systole.

2. Conductive system of heart

3. Stroke volume, cardiac output and regulation

 4. Heart Rate and regulation

5. Define blood pressure and write short term, intermediate and long term regulation of blood
pressure.

6. ECG

7. Effect of exercise on Cardio vascular system

Assignment 9.0

1. Write down non-respiratory functions of Lungs.

2. Mechanics of respirations with pressure changes.

3. Functions of surfactant and applied (IRDS,ARDS)

4. Pulmonary function tests ( Voulme, capacity and dynamic function tests)

5. Dead space

6. Diffusion capacity of respiratory membrane

7. Transport of oxygen

8. Oxygen saturation curve

9. Bohr’s effect

10. Transport of carbon – dioxide

11. Haldane effect

12. Hamburger phenomenon ( chloride and reverse chloride shift)

13. Regulation of respiration ( nervous, chemical and peripheral)

14. Deep sea physiology / decompression syndrome

15. High altitude physiology

16. Hypoxia

17. Effect of exercise on respiration.

Assignment 10.0

1. Define neuron and write down classification of Neuron

2. Erlanger Grasser classification

 3. Properties of Neuron

4. Resting membrane potential

5. Action Potential

6. Degeneration and Regeneration of nerve fibre.

7. Neuroglia and Myelination.

8. Define receptors and write properties of receptors ( esp law of projection)

9. Draw a diagram of synapse. Classify and write properties of synapse.

10. Define synapse. Write down the transmission of impulse across synapse.

11. Draw a labelled diagram of reflex arc. Classify and write properties of reflexes.

12. Write origin, pathway, termination and function of anterolatateral spinothalamic tract.

13. Write origin, pathway, termination and function of dorsal spinothalamic tract / Tract of goll
and Burdach.

14. Write origin, pathway, termination and function of pyramidal tract and effect of lesion at
various level.

15. Transections of spinal cord and Brown – sequard syndrome

16. Differentiate UMN and LMN leisons

17. Functions of cerebellum and applied

18. Functions of thalamus and applied

19. Functions of hypothalamus and applied

20. Functions of basal ganglia and applied

21. Stretch reflex

22. CSF

23. Pain pathway

24. Autonomic Nervous system

Assignment 11.0

1. Functions of middle ear

2. Tympanic reflex

3. Impedance matching
 4. Mechamism of hearing and deafness

5. Olfactory pathway

6. Taste pathway

7. Visual pathway

8. Errors of refraction

9. Theories of color vision

SECTION- II (BIOCHEMISTRY)

Assignment 1.0

1. Mitochondria

2. Fluid mosaic model

3. Active transport mechanism

4. Cell organelles and their functions

5. Various transport mechanism with examples

Assignment 2.0

1. Classification of enzymes

2. Factors affecting enzyme activity

3. Competitive inhibition with examples

4. Isoenzymes and clinical and therapeutic uses of enzymes

Assignment 3.0

1. Vitamin A – Metabolism, Sources, Biochemical functions , Deficiency

2. Vitamin D – Synthesis, regulation, Biochemical functions , Deficiency

3. Vitamin C - Sources, Biochemical functions , Deficiency

4. Wald’s visual cycle

Assignment 4.0
 1. Polysaccharide

2. Classification of carbohydrates

3. Digestion & absorption of carbohydrate

4. Glycolysis

5. TCA cycle

6. Gluconeogensis

7. Diabetes mellitus and blood sugar regulation

Assignment 5.0

1. Classifications of Amino acids

2. Classifications of Proteins

3. Plasma proteins and its functions

4. Sickle cell anemia

5. Phenylketouria

6. Transamination, Deamination, Urea cycle and its disorder

7. Collagen and its disorders

8. Haemoglobin synthesis and degradation

Assignment 6.0

1. Lipoproteins
2. Fatty liver
3. Essential fatty acid
4. Long Questions:
5. B- Oxidation with its energetic
6. Ketone-bodies metabolism

Assignment 7.0

1. Calcium and its homeostatic

Assignment 8.0

2. Basal metabolic rate

 3. Protein energy malnutrition
4. Obesity
5. Balance diet

Assignment 9.0

1. Nucleic acid
2. Genetics code
3. Gout

Assignment 10.0

1. Chapter- XI Electron transport chain

2. Oxidative phosphorylastion
3. Complexes of ETC

Assignment 11.0

1. Chapter- X Acid-base regulations

2. Metabolic Acidosis
3. Renal mechanisms of acid base regulation
4. Plasma buffers