What is Experimental Physiology (Ex Physio) - Series

This is a computer assisted learning package containing various programs which simulate animal experiments in Physiology. These programs can be used to perform virtual physiology experiments. The package is user friendly, highly interactive and full of animated sequences which make simulation appear realistic. The current version of Experimental Physiology (Ex-Physio) - series software consists of following computer simulated experiments:

Experiments List:

 A. AMPHIBIAN NERVE-MUSCLE EXPERIMENTS

1       Effect of temperature on simple muscle twitch.

2       Effect of two successive stimuli (of same strength) on skeletal muscle.

3       Effect of increasing strength of stimuli on skeletal muscle.

4       Effect of increasing frequency of stimuli on skeletal muscle (genesis of tetanus).

5       Effect of repeated stimuli on skeletal muscle (study of phenomenon of Fatigue).

6       Determination of conduction velocity of sciatic nerve.

7       Effect of free load (pre load) and after load on skeletal muscle.

 B. EXPERIMENTS ON HEART (CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM)

1       Effect of electrical stimuli application on the cardiac activity.

2       Effect of several drugs and some chemical mediators on cardiac activity.

3       The influence of the cardiac output, the peripheral resistance and vascular elasticity o

4       The measurement of the arterial tension by the Auscultatory method.

5       The influence of pressure, viscosity, radius, and length of the vessel on the flow of a  liquid through the vessel.

C. EXPERIMENTS ON SKELETAL MUSCLES

1       The composed contraction of the skeletal muscles.

2       The simple contraction of the skeletal muscles.

3       The role of the motor end plate in initializing tiredness.

4       Action membrane potential.

5       Resting membrane potential.

D. EXPERIMENTS ON GIT (DIGESTIVE SYSTEM)

1       Digestive system- Substrate specificity of Salivary amylase.

2       Demonstration of the action of pancreatic lipase in the presence and absence of the bile.

3       The influence  of pH on the action of pepsin.

E. EXPERIMENTS ON ISOLATED NEURON

1       The  effect of  anesthetic substance and low temperature on the excitability of nerve.

2       Determination of the action potential velocity.

F. EXPERIMENTS ON CEREBRAL AND PERIPHERAL INHIBITION 

1       Cerebral  inhibition.

2       Peripheral  inhibition.

3       Pfluger’s  law.

G. EXPERIMENTS ON KIDNEY

1       The effect of hydrostatic pressure, osmotic pressure, diameter of the glomerular afferent and  efferent arterioles on urine flow.

2       Influence of aldosterone and antidiuretic hormone on urine flow.

3       Influence of glucose on urine flow.

H. EXPERIMENTS ON RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

1       Pulmonary volumes and capacities and the influence of the radius of the airways on them.

2       The influence of pleural space pressure on pulmonary ventilation.

3       The effect of  surfactant on pulmonary ventilation.

I. EXPERIMENT ON EFFECT OF VARIOUS DRUGS ON ISOLATED FROG'S HEART. (DRC- DOSE RESPONSE CURVE)

1 Epinephrine

2 Norepinephrine

3 Isoprenaline

4 Calcium chloride

5 Propranolol

6 Acetylcholine

7 Potassium chloride

8 Atropine sulphate

J.EXPERIMENTS ON EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DRUGS ON DOG BP & HEART RATE

1 The Effect Of Epinephrine, Acetylcholine, Atropine On The Arterial Pressure (Dog-Blood Pressure).

2 Simultaneous analysis of effect of different drugs on Dog Heart Rate and Blood Pressure.

3.Effects of drugs on blood pressure (vasopressor and vaso-depressors with appropriate blockers).

For whom is the software?

Software is aimed for medical, pharmacy and dental undergraduate students. The software can also be used by the students of paramedical courses such as nursing, medical laboratory technology and physiotherapy etc.