Human Physiology

Below are some links that I have collected that are of interest to students and teachers alike. Keep a sharp eye out for updates.
Homework Assignments
Lectures
Units for Terminolgy Quizes
Human Physiology Slide Shows
Optical Illusion!!!

  • What is NIGMS?
    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, supports basic biomedical research and training nationwide. NIGMS-funded studies lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
    For more information, contact the NIGMS communications office at 301-496-7301 or email pub_info@nigms.nih.gov.
  • Alternatives to dissection
    This site gives students info on:
    1. Animals used in education
    2. Student's Rights
    3. Other students testimonials
    4. Alternative lending information
    5. And Much More!
  • Virtual Knee Surgery (COSI)
    This totally Flash-driven tutorial allows users to conduct a virtual knee replacement. You will be guided step by step throughout the procedure and will have opportunities to interact with various tools such as the bone saw, a tool for cauterizing veins, and so forth. Also includes real photos of the procedure in a separate section which are not too gross. Produced by COSI Columbus.
  • ActionBioScience
    Actionbioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created and managed by BioScience Productions, Inc. to promote bioscience literacy. This web site provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genome, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with lessons and resources to enhance bioscience teaching. Actionbioscience.org articles are correlated to the U.S. National Science Education Standards and organized in easy-to-follow charts.
  • Student Competition for the Young Epidemiology Scholars
  • Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection
    This web site provides browsers with images and information from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals. Viewers can see and download photographs of brains of over 100 different species of mammals (including humans) representing 17 mammalian orders.
  • Biological Sciences Resources
    Contains an archive of links on different biological sciences.
  • The Virtual Frog Dissection
    An interactive frog dissection lab online.
  • Gross Anatomy
    Loyola University Medical Center's resources on Anatomy.
  • Microbiology
    Contains a collection of essays on virology.
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine
    Home of the largest library of medicine. Contains a variety of links.
  • The Center For Bioethics
    Contains a lot of information on bioethics as well as a good collection of links.
  • Carrefour BIODIDAC Home Page
    A media bank of text, images, sounds and video in a digital format that can be used and adapted for teaching Biology in French.
  • Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
    This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders
  • CELLS alive!
    This site contains video clips, images, and essays describing cells.
  • HHMI Biomedical Research
    Contains information on the latest research developments in the biomedical field.
  • The Natural History of Genes
    Shows how genes effect individuals as well as societies.
  • Gander academy's Human Systems Theme Page
    Comprehensive and easy to understand tutorials on different systems of the human body.
  • Guided Tour of the Visible Human
    The Visible Human Project has generated over 18000 digitized sections of the body. The animations and images in this tour use a few of these images to demonstrate planes of section and other introductory concepts in anatomy.
  • The Heart
    Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
  • The Heart: An Online Exploration - Provides information on the hearts's structure and function, a student- designed heart project, a movie of the heart, the blood, the body's circulation, and heart monitoring, including actual sounds of a beating heart.
  • The Heart: The Engine of Life Educational Software - Provides animated, interactive tutorial program on the human heart. The program is available as shareware at a nominal cost.
  • ABO Blood System Blood type "O" lacks the A and B antigen but it doesn't mean that nothing is there. It is sometimes called the "H antigen." It represents the core oligosaccharide chain which is modified to produce type A or B blood.
  • Tufts Univ. Nutrition Navigator - how to find specific informationyou need and how to figure out if it is medically sound.
  • Skeletal SystemThis is a great overall Biology Site: It has ton's of interesting on-level activities.
  • http://www.physicianboard.com/
    PhysicianBoard is a new online database to match job-hunting physicians with employment opportunities.  Doctors cab search for free, and employers can or recruiters can post for free!
  • http://faculty.washington.edu
    This is a site for kids to learn about Neuroscience.