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Advanced Cardiopulmonary Physiology

General

Prefix

EXSC

Course Number

430

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Health and Wellness Professions

Description

Advanced study of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems as they relate to acute and chronic exercise responses.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Examine cardiovascular, muscular, and respiratory systems and how they are neurologically and hormonally controlled.

Outcome

Summarize basic events and products of glycolysis, citric acid cycle, electron transport, glycogenesis, glycogenolysis, and beta-oxidation as they relate to the synthesis of ATP.

Outcome

Describe how metabolic pathways are impacted during exercise.

Outcome

Desribe events of contraction and relaxation of cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle.

Outcome

Explain the mechanisms behid the regulation of blood pressure as it relates to the heart and circulatory system.

Outcome

Recognize mechanisms underlying acute and chronic responses to aerobic exercise with emphasis on cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, metabolic, endocrine, and immune systems in trained and untrained individuals.

Outcome

Identify causes of muscle fatigue and how it relates to mode, intensity, duration, and the accumulative effects of exercise.

Outcome

Summarize the phases and events that take place during the cardiac cycle.

Outcome

Compare and contrast acute, chronic, static, and dynamic responses to the following variables: heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, pulmonary ventilation, tidal volume, and arteiovenous oxygen difference.

Outcome

Describe physiological events that result in delayed onset muscles soreness and its impact on performance.

Course Outline

Course Outline

Physiology of skeletal, cardiac, and muscular contraction. 10% Hormonal control of muscular and cardiovascular systems. 10% Blood pressure regulation. 10% Metabolism. 10% Exercise influences on cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. 20% Mechanisms underlying adaptations to acute and chronic aerobic and resistance exercise. 10% Muscular properties. 10% Fatigue. 10% Muscle injury and soreness from exercise. 10%

Dependencies

Programs

EXSC430 is a completion requirement for: