environment. Thus, to Barcroft homeostasis was not only organized by the brain—homeostasis served the brain. Homeostasis is an almost exclusively biological...
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In biology, energy homeostasis, or the homeostatic control of energy balance, is a biological process that involves the coordinated homeostatic regulation...
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Radiation hormesis (redirect from Radiation homeostasis)
Radiation hormesis is the hypothesis that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the region of and just above natural background levels) are beneficial...
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Developmental homeostasis is a process in which animals develop more or less normally, despite defective genes and deficient environments. It is an organism's...
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Blood sugar regulation (redirect from Glucose homeostasis)
within a narrow range. This tight regulation is referred to as glucose homeostasis. Insulin, which lowers blood sugar, and glucagon, which raises it, are...
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Jevons paradox (redirect from Waste homeostasis)
In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource...
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Hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis (redirect from Thyroid homeostasis)
hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis (HPT axis for short, a.k.a. thyroid homeostasis or thyrotropic feedback control) is part of the neuroendocrine system...
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Thermoregulation (redirect from Thermal homeostasis)
thermoregulation. The internal thermoregulation process is one aspect of homeostasis: a state of dynamic stability in an organism's internal conditions, maintained...
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Gaia hypothesis (redirect from Planetary homeostasis)
coordination of living organisms and maintain those conditions through homeostasis. In some versions of Gaia philosophy, all lifeforms are considered part...
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Acid–base homeostasis is the homeostatic regulation of the pH of the body's extracellular fluid (ECF). The proper balance between the acids and bases...
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Drug withdrawal (section Effect on homeostasis)
around 37 °C (98.6 °F). Homeostasis is impacted in many ways by drug usage and withdrawal. The internal systems perpetuate homeostasis by using different counter-regulatory...
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Risk compensation (redirect from Risk homeostasis)
(2000) "The extreme views of risk homeostasis have attracted little support" O'Neill & Williams (1998) "Risk homeostasis is not a theory. It is a hypothesis...
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Allostasis (section Variance from homeostasis)
Another example that does not completely follow homeostasis is blood pressure: if abiding by homeostasis, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring should show...
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Human iron metabolism (redirect from Iron homeostasis)
iron metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that maintain human homeostasis of iron at the systemic and cellular level. Iron is both necessary to...
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the saliva and bile. Beneficial bacteria also can contribute to the homeostasis of the gastrointestinal immune system. For example, Clostridia, one of...
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on the brain. Allostasis is the system which helps to achieve homeostasis. Homeostasis is the regulation of physiological processes, whereby systems in...
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purported stabilization of physiological processes and promotion of homeostasis. The term "adaptogen" refers to non-toxic plants or their extracts purported...
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Homeostatic model assessment (redirect from Homeostasis model assessment)
Hosker JP, Rudenski AS, Naylor BA, Treacher DF, Turner RC (1985). "Homeostasis model assessment: insulin resistance and beta-cell function from fasting...
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Brain (section Homeostasis)
homeostasis (Greek for "standing still"). Maintaining homeostasis is a crucial function of the brain. The basic principle that underlies homeostasis is...
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Metaplasticity (redirect from Synaptic homeostasis)
homeostasis hypothesis? In February 2002, two separate articles were published on the discovery of a receptors' involvement in synaptic homeostasis....
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Proteostasis (redirect from Protein homeostasis)
peptide chain that would require more space. In order to maintain protein homeostasis post-translationally, the cell makes use of molecular chaperones sometimes...
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protect itself, and that can tamp down the immune response to maintain homeostasis and allow healing after insult or injury. Different bacterial species...
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Potassium (section Homeostasis)
sometimes termed the "external potassium homeostasis system"; and the first two, the "reactive potassium homeostasis system". The reactive negative-feedback...
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Adenosine receptor (section Bone homeostasis)
respiration in premature infants. Adenosine receptors play a key role in the homeostasis of bone. The A1 receptor has been shown to stimulate osteoclast differentiation...
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functions. Many systems and mechanisms interact in order to maintain homeostasis, with safe levels of substances such as sugar, iron, and oxygen in the...
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later be taken up and championed as "homeostasis" by American physiologist Walter B. Cannon in 1929. By homeostasis, Cannon meant "the maintenance of steady...
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Calcium metabolism (redirect from Calcium homeostasis)
: 276–277 An important aspect of calcium metabolism is plasma calcium homeostasis, the regulation of calcium ions in the blood plasma within narrow limits...
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Common watersnake (section Homeostasis)
The common watersnake (Nerodia sipedon) is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to North America...
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dermis. Its main functions are protection, absorption of nutrients, and homeostasis. In structure, it consists of a keratinized stratified squamous epithelium;...
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Blood sugar level (category Human homeostasis)
The body tightly regulates blood glucose levels as a part of metabolic homeostasis. For a 70 kg (154 lb) human, approximately four grams of dissolved glucose...
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