IPHY 3410-001

Welcome to the home page for IPHY 3410, Introduction to Human Anatomy, Section 1. Click on an item in the list below:

• Current course Materials:
• Spring 2013 syllabus (PDF) and Terms of Use
• Exam Preparation
• Screencast videos
• Archived and miscellaneous course materials:
• IPHY 3410 Learning Goals - This 20-page document (PDF) lists the skills and knowledge areas that all sections of this course attempt to provide
• Fall 2009 lecture outlines - Single PDF file | Separate HTML files
• Fall 2008 lecture outlines
• Other Important Links at CU:
• CUClicker registration instructions
• Anatomy Lab (IPHY 3415)
• Integrative Physiology Department
• Anatomy links:
• Anatomy (general)
• The Anatomy & Physiology Place
• Guinness World Records: Flip through the slides (they are shuffled randomly with each visit) to see the world's longest fingernails, stretchiest skin, etc.
• Body parts of famous people
• Cell structure
• Inner Life of the Cell: A beautiful animation of subcellular structures in motion
• Integumentary System
• Snopes.com debunks the myth of the Goldfinger actress death
• Surgically altered fingerprints help woman evade immigration
• Joints
• Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees?: Studies show that running is not necessarily harmful to knees
• Famous orthopedic injuries
• Muscle
• Human Muscle, Regrown on Animal Scaffolding: Extracellular matrix from a pig bladder appears to recruit stem cells from the blood which, under mechanical stress, differentiate into muscle cells. (NY Times 9/16/2012)
• Digestive system
• Lying on your left side eases heartburn
• Sword swallowing
• X-rays of sword swallowers
• Respiratory system
• Video inside the larynx of a throat singer
• 1-Inch Piece of Plastic Spoon Removed From Man's Lung
• Cardiovascular system
• Animation of the cycle of heart contraction
• Brain
• Green Fluorescent Protein - Cool Uses - Brainbow: Details on the fluorescence technique for elucidating neural connections, and various interesting applications
• Colorful Images to Help Illuminate the Brain: Beautiful photos of nervous tissue colorized with fluorescence and antibody techniques, with explanatory text for each image
• Spinal cord
• First patient treated in Geron stem cell trial: Clinical trials have finally begun (2010) in the use of stem cells to treat spinal cord injury
• Autonomic nervous system
• Disease Underlies Hatfield-McCoy Feud: News article (2007) reports that oversecretion of epinephrine may have exacerbated this famous feud
• Ear
• Myringotomy video: Click on the 4th link, "Ear tube insertion videos" and then "Video 1"
• Cochlear animation: The cochlea is unrolled and the vibrating portions are shown during sensation of a Bach composition
• Urinary system
• Kidney cartoon from lecture (Note: only for illustration; terminology does not match lecture exactly)