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- 5. failure Result of negative feedback mechanisms that become overwhelmed,allowing destructive positive feedback mechanisms to compensate for the failed feedback mechanisms.
- 9. What toxic substance is excreted in the urine?
- 10. Nerve cells relay on what about information of body temperature?
- 11. What is another word that can be used to describe "homeostasis"?
- 13. Type of sensor that monitors and responds to changes in the environment.
- 15. Diabetes is normally treated with what?
- 16. What are the factors that not affecting the internal environment?
- 17. Homeostasis in the human body is often maintaned by
- 19. The____system plays an important role in homeostasis because hormones regulate the activity of body cells.
- 23. Any failure of normal physiological function that leads to negative symptoms.
- 24. The formation of glucose in the liver from non carbohydrate sources such as amino acids, pyruvate, lactate and glycerol____
- 28. What is the example of a negative feedback mechanism?
- 29. What transports the glucose to the body’s cells for use in cellular metabolic function?
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- 1. The maintenance of an organism's internal environment is called
- 2. The "cause" for something to happen is the
- 3. Information is sent along efferent pathway to effector.
- 4. What intervention is necessary to restore homeostasis and prevent permanent organ damage?
- 6. An example of a positive feedback loop is____
- 7. Determines the set point at which a variable is to be maintaned.
- 8. How much are the necessary component of a homeostatic feedback loop?
- 10. When interruptions to the homeostatic state become long-term or can't be easily corrected,it is called____
- 12. The "effect" of a given stimulus is the
- 14. In______, the control center uses information from the sensors to increase the rate of change away from a set point.
- 18. General example of disease as a result of homeostatic imbalance.
- 20. What occur when the control mechanism for insulin becomes imbalanced, either because there is a deficiency of insulin or because cells have become resistant to insulin?
- 21. What term describes input information going to the brain?
- 22. 85% of filtrate is reabsorbed in the_____
- 25. In negative feedback,a control system_______any change in the body that moves conditions above or below a set point.
- 26. The "control center" in your body is your_____
- 27. Which organ will balance the glucose level in the body?
- 30. Information is sent along afferent pathway to control center.