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Text Book

Human Physiology - http://www.physiologyplace.com
Web page supporting the Human Physiology text book by Dee. Silverthorn

West Valley College Library

WVC Library - the West Valley College library has additional print and electronic resources.

For access to online journal articles select the "Find Articles" button. Use ProQuest for access to articles in scholarly journals. Note: the "Well Connected" and "PubMed" databases are more appropriate for access to general information, these are NOT scholarly journal sources.

For help with research select the "Research Guides" button.

Other Libraries

PlaneTree Health Library - http://www.planetreesanjose.org/

Bay Area Health and Medical Libraries list - http://www.planetreesanjose.org/otherlibraries.html

Animations

  Cellular Metabolism

  1. Glycolysis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-stLxqPt6E
  2. TriCarboxylic Acid Cycle (TCA): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCypoN3X7KQ&NR=1
  3. Electron Transport System: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idy2XAlZIVA&NR=1

  Muscle Physiology

  1. Power Stroke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ309LfHQ3M&feature=related
  2. Neuromuscular Junction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnVY4Waimwg&feature=related
  3. Excitation Contraction Coupling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DyJwwFnkU&feature=related

  Neurophysiology

  1. Action Potential: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz2ueO0pwc&feature=related
  2. Na-K Pump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJIvEb6x6w&NR=1
  3. Chemical Synapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXx9qlJetSU&feature=related

  Cardiorespiratory Physiology

  1. Cardiac Cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rguztY8aqpk
  2. Myocardial Contraction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQOLiFto6Q&NR=1

Search Engines

Public library of Science (PLOS) - http://www.plosbiology.org
Public Library of Science

Google - http://www.google.com/
Search the web

Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
Search through journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature (beta version)

Medline - http://medline.cos.com/
Search this comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information

Melvyl - http://melvyl.cdlib.org
The catalogue of the University of California libraries.

Journal Sites

Many Journals are now available online - current articles may be available as titles or abstracts while articles a year or older may be available in full text format. The following links lead to some key physiological journals available online. Note: some publishers charge a fee to read and print articles. Do not pay for the article, use ProQuest (see above) or go to a local university or hospital library instead.

American Physiological Society - http://www.physiology.org/

  1. Journal of Applied Physiology,
  2. Journal of Neurophysiology,
  3. News in Physiological Sciences,
  4. Physiological Reviews,
  5. Physiological Genomics,
  6. Advances in Physiology Education,
  7. American Journal of Physiology

American Journal of Physiology - http://ajpcon.physiology.org/

  1. AJP - Cell Physiology
  2. AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism
  3. AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
  4. AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  5. AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
  6. AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
  7. AJP - Renal Physiology

Rockefeller University Press - http://www.rockefeller.edu/RUPress/

Journal of Physiology - http://jp.physoc.org/

New England Journal of Medicine - http://content.nejm.org/

JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) - http://jama.ama-assn.org/

National Academies Press - http://books.nap.edu/

Nature - http://www.nature.com/

Annual Reviews - http://www.annurev.org/

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