The Department of Physiology offers graduate programs leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The program includes areas of research such as endocrinology and diabetes, reproduction endocrinology, fetal physiology, pregnancy, and parturition, neuroendocrinology, cardiorespiratory regulation, gastrointestinal motility, sensory physiology, motor control, brain development, and aging, ionic channels and synaptic transmission, excitability, ultrastructure, and plasticity of the brain.