Equipment to Improve an Undergraduate Physiology Laboratory

该项目的目标是通过购买四个四通道数据记录器来提高本科生理学实验室的质量，这些记录器能够测量生理学课程中强调的许多重要的生理参数。以前，由于设备的限制，实验室练习中只包括其中的一些现象。生理学课程的实验室部分的范围正在大大扩大(在过去五年中为大约340名女学生提供了服务)。例如，这些数据图表被用来演示血压调节、心脏对不同刺激的反应变化，以及当受试者休息或锻炼时在心电图上观察到的变化。以前，实验室实验中没有真正的运动成分，甚至在心血管或呼吸生理学领域也没有。将这些仪器添加到实验室中，可以开发两个重要的新练习。接受资助的机构正在将NSF的奖励与从非联邦来源获得的同等金额相匹配。

The project goal is to upgrade the quality of the undergraduate physiology laboratory by purchasing four 4-channel datagraph recorders which have the capacity to measure many of the important physiological parameters that are emphasized in the physiology courses. Previously only some of these phenomena were included in laboratory exercises due to equipment limitations. The scope of the laboratory portion of the physiology courses (which have served approximately 340 women students in the past five years) is being greatly enhanced. The data graphs are being used, for example, to demonstrate blood pressure regulation, cardiac alterations in response to varying stimuli, and variations observable on the electrocardiogram when the subject is at rest or exercising. Previously there was no true exercise component to the lab experiments, not even in the areas of cardiovascular or respiratory physiology. The addition of these instruments to the laboratory permits the development of two important new exercises. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.