Physiology is the study of how animals work: how they breathe, feed, and interact with their environment. Apart from the intrinsic value of this knowledge, it is also knowledge upon which the health ...

In order for medical students to ultimately provide quality patient care medical schools should turn to radiologists to help them teach physiology, one of the core disciplines of medicine, according ...

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”. To mark the award, we present a Collection of research and ...

Homeostasis comprises the dynamic processes that enable optimum conditions to be maintained for cells, in spite of continual changes taking place internally and externally (Clancy and McVicar, 1995).

Reviewed by Loren Wissner Greene, MD, MA (Bioethics), Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY In healthy individuals, fasting glucose is primarily influenced by ...