Honors Anatomy & Physiology Links
Below are links to animations, tutorials, articles, professional journals, biomedical research, and other physiology information. Let me know if a link is not working or if you have a helpful website you would like to add.
General
1. Medline Plus (animations and tutorials, and information about any medical topic
2. Get Body Smart
3. Animations and tutorials for 1st semester topics
4. Animations and tutorials for 2nd semester topics
5. American Cancer Society
6. American Heart Association
7. American Diabetes Association
8. Health Centers Online
9. Surgical Procedure Videos
10. Genes and Disease
11. Web Anatomy
12. Orientation and Directional Terms
13. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
14. John Hopkins University Health Medicine Research
Live Surgical Procedures
OR-Live - view live webcasts of surical produres and email questions to real doctors during the procedure
Articles (will be updated periodically)
1. ProQuest (sign in through SHS Media Center - WELCOME is password)
2. Teens, Tans, and Truth (Newsweek 2008)
3. The Fake Bake Debate (Newsweek 2008)
4. A Dose of Vanity Prescribed for Tanning Addicts
5. Unmasking Skin (National Geographic (2002) ARTICLE QUESTIONS
6. Toxic Strength (steroid abuse among high school students)
7. Massachusetts campaign against obesity (Boston Globe, 1/8/2009)VIDEO
Professional Journals and Databases
1. PubMed (compilation of studies from many professional journals)
2. BioMed Central (peer reviewed research articles from 178 journals)
3. American Journal of Physiology
4. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
5. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
6. The Journal of Nutrition
7. Circulation (American Heart Association (AHA) journal)
8. Hypertension (AHA journal)
9. Stroke (AHA journal)
10. Ateriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology (AHA journal)
Integumentary
1. Layers of skin diagram (WebAnatomy.com)
2. Skin (interactive)
3. Skin structure and function
4. Skin and thermoregulation
5. Skin Problems
6. Skin color evolution
7. How Botox works (howstuffworks.com)
8. Common Adult Skin Problems
9. Skin Cancer Videos
Skeletal
1. Skeleton (general) (WebAnatomy.com))
2. Skull (labeling)
3. Appendicular Skeleton (tutorial)
4. Axial Skeleton (tutorial)
5. Vertebral Column (tutorial)
6. Interactive tutorials and quizzes (all of skeleton)
7. Epiphyses and Long Bone Growth
8. Bone Development and Growth
9. Hip and Knee Replacement Videos (Utah Hip and Knee Center)
10. Sports Related Injuries - Don't know the difference between a sprain and a strain?
Check out this site.
11. Classification of Joints
12. Virtual Hip Replacement
13. Virtual Knee Relacement
14. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
15. Bone Physiology
Muscular
1. Muscles - anterior view(labeling)
2. Muscles - posterior view (labeling)
3. Sliding filament theory of muscular contraction
4. Muscle anatomy and muscle contraction tutorial
5. Sarcomere shortening
6. How Skeletal Muscles Work (howstuffworks.com)
Nervous and Special Senses
1. Nervous system overview (University of Bristol Medical Research Center)
2. Action Potential tutorial
3. Interactive tutorial of neurons and action potential
4. Animation of the role of myelin
5. Physiology at the synapse
6. Brain tutorial
7. Neuron anatomy (labeling)
8. Brain anatomy (labeling)
9. Drugs and neurotransmitters
10. Effects of alcohol on neurotransmission
11. Anatomy of the Eye
12. Labeling the eye diagram
13. Complete eye tutorial (very detailed)
14. Many Aspects of Vision tutorial
15. How Neurotransmission Works
16. How does cocaine alter neurotransmission?
17. Mouse Party (similar to #9, but simplified)
18. Anatomy of the Ear
19. Sound Transduction
20. Effect of Sound Waves on Cochlear Structures
21. Inner ear maculae (orientation)
22. Gustatory (taste) animation
23. Olfactory (smell) animation
24. Molecular Animation of the Fight or Flight response
25. The Brain From Top to Bottom
26. Crossing the Divide (How Neurons Talk to Each Other)
Endocrine
1. Mechanism of Steriod hormone action
2. Mechanism of Amino acid based hormomes (ex. epinephrine)
3. Overivew of hormone action
4. Regulation of blood glucose (blood sugar)
5. Diabetes tutorial (American Diabetes Association Link for Life)
Cardiovascular
1. Heart Anatomy
2. Heart Anatomy Review
3. Heart Anatomy (internal)
4. Heart Anatomy (external)
5. Animations of cardiovascular diseases and procedures
6. Red blood cells
7. White blood cells
8. Hemostasis (blood clotting)
9. Blood Types
10. Blood Typing Game (Nobel Prize website)
11. How Statin Drugs Work (howstuffworks.com)
12. Cholesterol Levels (howstuffworks.com)
13. How your Heart Works (howstuffworks.com)
14. Heart Anatomy tutorial (from Texas Heart Institute)
15. Heart Anatomy tutorial (from Boston Scientific)
16. Get Body Smart (the Heart)
17. Cardiovascular animations (Brigham & Women's Hospital)
Respiratory System
1. Functional Anatomy of the Lungs
2. How Your Lungs Work (howstuffworks.com)
3. Respiratory Basics
4. Changes in partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide
Digestive and Nutrition
1. Digestive System organs (labeling)
2. How Digestion Works (howstuffworks.com)
3. Three Phases of Gastric Secretion
4. Nutrition and Digestion Tutorial
5. Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Source
6. NATS 2.0 (Nutritional Analysis)
7. Nutrition Data (Nutrition database)
8. How the Body Uses Fat (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
9. Micronutrient Information Center (Linus Pauling Institute)
10. USDA Nutrient Database
11. Glycemic Index Database
12. Glycemic Index and glycemic load (Linus Pauling Institute)
13. Estimating Serving Sizes (Wichita State)
14. American Dietetic Association Nutrition Fact Sheets
15. Digestion Tutorial
16. Make your own nutrition label
17. Lipoprotein tutorial
18. Cholesterol Video
19. Leptin and Obesity (Nova video)
Immune System
1. Immune System Overview
2. Humoral Immune Response
3. Several Immune System Animations
4. How Your Immune System Works (howstuffworks.com)
Urinary System
1. Kidney structure
2. Kidney vascular system
3. The Juxtaglomerular Apparatus
4. Micturition Reflex
5. How your Kidneys Work (howstuffworks.com)
6. How Hemodialysis Works (kidney patient guide)
7. How Kidney Stones form (howstuffworks.com)
Reproductive System
1. Life's Greatest Miracle (PBS)
2. Events of Uterine and Ovarian Cycles
3. Menstrual cycle
4. Female Reproductive Anatomy Quiz (front)
5. Female Reproductive Anatomy Quiz (side view)
6. Male Reproductive Anatomy Quiz
Fetal Pig
1. Virtual Pig Dissection
Citation References
1. AMA style (for medical journals and biological sciences)
2. MLA style
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