Ph.I.L.S. (Physiology Interactive Lab Simulations), Version 3.0

Ph.I.L.S. (Physiology Interactive Lab Simulations) Version 3.0 helps students to reinforce key physiology concepts with powerful lab experiments. This product offers 37 self-contained laboratory simulations that may be used either to supplement or replace wet labs. Ph.I.L.S. allows students to perform experiments according to their own schedules without risk of harm to themselves or live animals, and also without having to use expensive lab equipment (like Biopac, IWORX or Intellitool). Students can adjust variables, view outcomes, make predictions, draw conclusions, quiz themselves, and print lab reports. There is no limit to the number of times students can repeat each exercise, and the results differ every time the student changes the variables. Table of Contents: Osmosis and Diffusion: 1 Varying Extracellular Concentration; Metabolism: 2 Size and Basal Metabolic Rate; 3 Cyanide and Electron Transport; Skeletal Muscle Function; 4 Stimulus Dependent Force Generation; 5 The Length-Tension Relationship; 6 Principles of Summation and Tetanus; 7 EMG and Twitch Amplitude; Resting Potentials: 8 Resting Potential and External Potassium Concentration; 9 Resting Potential and External Sodium Concentration; Action Potentials: 10 The Compound Action Potential; 11 Conduction Velocity and Temperature; 12 Action Potentials and Refractory Periods; 13 Measuring Ion Currents; Synaptic Potentials: 14 Facilitation & Depression; 15 Temporal Summation of EPSPs; 16 Spatial Summation of EPSPs; Endocrine Function: 17 Thyroid Gland and Metabolic Rate; Frog Heart Function: 18 Thyroid and Chemical Effects; 19 Refractory Period of the Heart; 20 Starling's Law of the Heart; 21 Heart Block; ECG and Heart Function: 22 ECG and Exercise; 23 The Meaning of Heart Sounds; 24 ECG and Finger Pulse; 25 Electrical Axis of the Heart; 26 ECG and Heart Block; 27 Abnormal ECGs; Circulation:  28 Cooling and Peripheral Blood Flow; 29 Blood Pressure and Gravity; 30 Blood Pressure and Body Position; Blood: 31 pH & Hb-oxygen Binding; 32 DPG & Hb-oxygen Binding; Respiration: 33 Altering Body Position; 34 Altering Airway Volume; 35 Exercise-Induced Changes; 36 Deep Breathing and Cardiac Function; Digestion: 37 Glucose Transport.

First Edition. Version 3.0. Suitable for Higher Education. The CD may be purchased here if available.

ISBN-13: 978-0-0733-4933-6

Version: 3.0, 2008