Veterinary Physiology of Respiratory system

Veterinary Physiology of respiratory system include respiratory structures, volumes and capacities of lungs, gas laws, artificial respiration, gas exchange, ventilation, Hering-breuer reflex, transport of gases, acid-base balance, and avian respiration.

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1. Respiratory structures
   • Trachea and Alveoli
2. Pulmonary Volumes and Capacities
3. Gas laws useful in gas exchange
4. Mechanism of Respiration
5. Respiratory Frequency in animals
6. Artificial respiration
7. Pulmonary passageway and pulmonary vascular resistance
8. Pulmonary blood flow
9. Physiology of gas exchange
10. Ventilation-perfusion relationships (V/Q)
11. Dead Space Ventilation
12. Control of respiration
    • Neural Control
    • Hering-breuer reflex
    • Humoral Control
13. Transport of gases
    • Oxygen Transport
    • Carbon dioxide transport
    • Carbon dioxide equilibration curve and hypoxia
14. Role of respiratory system in Acid–base balance
15. Functions of lungs other then respiration
16. Mucociliary system
17. Avian Respiration
    • Airsacs and Mechanism of respiration in birds
    • Regulation of respiration in birds