Unit 1Introduction/1 Unit 2Introduction of Surgical Manipulation on Animals and Biosignal Acquisition and Analysis System/3Section 1The Surgical Manipulation of Mammals/3 Section 2The Surgical Manipulation of Toads/15 Section 3BL420N Data Acquisition and Analysis System for Life Science/23 Section 4Brief Operative Guidelines for Biological Signal Recording System (MD2000 Super Lab System)/38 Unit 3Physiological Experiments on Animals/44Section 1Recording of Compound Potential in Sciatic Nerve Trunk of Toad/44 Section 2Determination of Conduction Velocity of Action Potential in Nerve Trunk of Toad/47 Section 3Excitability Change during and after Excitation/49 Section 4Simultaneous Recording of Action Potential and Muscle Tension in Sciatic Nervegastrocnemius/51 Section 5Ionic Effect and Hormonal Regulation on a Toad Heart during Contraction in vitro/54 Section 6Cardiac Autorhythmicity/60 Section 7Premature Contraction and Compensatory Pause/64 Section 8Factors that Affect Cardiac Output/69 Section 9Nervous and Hormonal Regulation of Cardiovascular Activity/75 Section 10Factors Affect the Discharges of the Depressor Nerve/82 Section 11The Regulations of Respiratory Movement/85 Section 12Movement of Small Intestinal Smooth Muscle in vitro/90 Section 13Factors that Affect Blood Coagulation/94 Section 14Factors that Affect Urine Formation/97 Section 15Simultaneous Recordings of Muscle Spindle Discharge and Passive Tension of Sartorius Muscle/101 Section 16Chemical Labyrinthectomy to Study the Vestibular System/104 Section 17Analysis of Reflex Arc/106 Section 18Unilateral Cerebellar Lesions/109 Section 19Hormonal Regulation of Blood Glucose Level/112 Section 20Experiment Design—Role of Baroreceptor Reflex in Acute Blood Loss/114 Unit 4Physiological Experiments on Human/116Section 1Introduction of PowerLab System and Pulse Wave Measurement/116 Section 2Electrocardiogram at Rest and after Exercise/124 Section 3Electromyography/129 Section 4Arterial Blood Pressure Recording/136 Section 5Characteristics of Different Types of Itch Induced by Various Pruritogens/141 References/150The Handbook of Physiological ExperimentsContents