BIOL W3006: Physiology, Fall 2000
Topic 6: Stress and the immune system
Tuesday, October 31: Responding to stress
- Lecture
- Adrenal gland
- Sympathetic nervous system
- Response to stress
- Other reading
- Sherwood (4th ed):
- Adrenal gland: 675-679
- Sympathetic nervous system: 222-229
- Stress: 684-685
- Sherwood (3rd ed):
- Adrenal gland: 661-665
- Sympathetic nervous system: 204-211
- Stress: 670-672
- Adrenal
gland A nice tutorial from Colorado State University
Thursday, November 2: Immune system
- Lecture
- Adrenal gland
- Nonspecific immunity
- Specific immunity
- Other reading
- Sherwood (4th ed):
- Nonspecific immunity: 390-392 (didn't do inflammation), 398-400
- Specific immunity: 400-404; 411-414
- White blood cells: 377-379
- Lymphatic vessels: 345
- Sherwood (3rd ed):
- Nonspecific immunity: 374-376 (didn't do inflammation), 382-384
- Specific immunity: 384-388; 396-398
- White blood cells: 360-363
- Lymphatic vessels: 329-330
- Exploring your brain:
Stress, trauma and the brain Transcript of a television interview with Kiecolt-Glaser
and Glaser, who studied the medical students at exam time, Robert Sapolsky, who did the
animal work on baboons, and others.
- Biology
of stress, by Jeffrey Clothier, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. A
lecture for a medical school psychiatry class, covers some of the same topics we did in
class.
Thursday, November 9: EXAM #2
- Exam -- Everything since the last exam
- Calcium balance (includes the reading on bones in space)
- Acid-base balance
- Stress and disease
- Problem Set 5: Answers (Urinary system)
- Problem Set 6 (Stress and Immune system)