Cardiovascular System/Autonomic Nervous System Tutor
- Synopsis
- A teaching package in four parts, suitable for self-paced open learning or part of a lecture course. Approximate 5 hours teaching material.
- Series
- Pccal: Pharmacy Consortium for Computer Aided Learning, Tltp Project
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Multimedia; Computer program. Floppy disk. PC version only.
- Year of production
- 1995
- Availability
- Out of Distribution
- Notes
- Available to UK higher education institutions.
- Uses
- Undergraduate pharmacy.
- Subjects
- Medical sciences
- Keywords
- autonomic nervous system; cardiovascular system; computer-assisted learning; medical education; pharmacy studies; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme
Distribution Formats
- Type
- CD-ROM
Sections
- Title
- Introduction, An
- Synopsis
- Part 1: An introduction to the concepts covered.
- Title
- Experimental set-up
- Synopsis
- Part 2: Outlines the methods used to anaesthetise and prepare a rat for injecting drugs, to record blood pressure and heart rate, and to stimulate autonomic nerves in the lab.
- Title
- Parasympathetic autonomic nervous system, The
- Synopsis
- Part 3: A guided experiment through vagus nerve stimulation and injection of acetylcholine. also covers the use of antagonists to distinguish receptor types.
- Title
- Sympathetic autonomic nervous system, The
- Synopsis
- Part 4: A guided experiment covering injection of adrenaline and noradrenaline compared to stimulation of the cardiac nerve; also covers the difference between adrenoceptor types by using of receptor blocking drugs.
Production Company
- Name
Aston University
Distributor
- Name
University of Bath, School of Pharmacy
- pccal@bath.ac.uk
- Web
- http://www.bath.ac.uk/PCCAL/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01225 826826 ext 5110
- Address
- Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY - Notes
- contact: Mr Keith Brown
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