Understanding Medical Physiology: A Textbook for Medical Students

highlights developmental aspects and physiological variations due to age and sex. It incorporates ergonomics, the pineal gland, and space physiology, as well as topics relevant to India like the physiology of yoga and nutritional and environmental physiology. This edition incorporates information on cerebral blood flow during exercise, the anti-fatigue action of catecholamines during exercise, the role of metabosensitive nerve endings in muscle fatigue, the nutritional role of neuroglia, multiple mechanisms for glucose absorption, the pathophysiology of clubbing of fingers, the staircase phenomenon, REM sleep, and the high degree of coordination involved in ciliary activity in the respiratory tract