Web links to interesting anatomy & physiology and related pages


Journal of Animal Science web link that includes the style and form details:
 http://www.asas.org/jas/ 


Do you want to convert from one unit to another?  Try the below site.

Unit Conversion site:    Click here


A list of brains of various animals.  Most domestic mammals are in the Order Artyiodactyla, meaning even-toed ungulates.  This includes pigs, cattle and sheep.  Horses are in the order Perrisodactyla or odd-toed animals.  On this link, look at the brains of the dolphin, pig, bovine, horse, rat and human (at least). This page also has interesting pages on brain circuitry and development.  

http://brainmuseum.org/index.html 


Nervous system and muscle movement have been described in a movie format by Kattesh, Sims and Henry at the University of Tennessee.  Some of the movies are found at links given here.  You must have a Windows Media player to view these movies.

Organization of the nervous system

Muscle contraction in line-diagram format

Muscle proteins moving against each other, especially actin & myosin

 


For anatomy and function of the human heart, see the following link.  The site also has some peripheral circulatory anatomy of the human.

http://www.tmc.edu/thi/anatomy.html


 

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Revised: January 05, 2007 .