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Homeostasis in the Human Body [3D Animation]
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Unit 4 Review - Homeostasis
Unit 4 Review - HomeostasisUnit 4 Review - Homeostasis
Paul Andersen reviews the major concepts within the fourth unit of the new AP Biology framework. He begins by differentiating between negative and positive f...
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Homeostasis
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Science Help at Brightstorm! http://brightstorm.com/science The definition and importance of homeostasis.
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HOMEOSTASIS Y MEDIO INTERNO (Retroalimentación Positiva y Negativa)
HOMEOSTASIS Y MEDIO INTERNO (Retroalimentación Positiva y Negativa)HOMEOSTASIS Y MEDIO INTERNO (Retroalimentación Positiva y Negativa)
Homeostasis Medio interno Suscribete a nuestra organización de estudiantes ayudando a otros estudiantes y así podrás ver las actualizaciones: FACEBOOK: https...
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Homeostasis 1, Physiological Principles
Homeostasis 1, Physiological PrinciplesHomeostasis 1, Physiological Principles
Homeostasis Introduction Homeo - same Stasis -- standing still Dynamic equilibrium Disruptors Detectors Control system Effectors Body made of billions of cel...
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Positive and Negative Feedback Loops
Positive and Negative Feedback LoopsPositive and Negative Feedback Loops
018 - Positive and Negative Feedback Loops Paul Andersen explains how feedback loops allow living organisms to maintain homeostasis. He uses thermoregulation...
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Homeostasis.avi
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How our body temperature is maintained - Homeostasis being explained in a simple language
How our body temperature is maintained - Homeostasis being explained in a simple languageHow our body temperature is maintained - Homeostasis being explained in a simple language
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Homeostatic Loops
Homeostatic LoopsHomeostatic Loops
Paul Andersen describes four important homeostatic loops in biology. He begins with a brief description of the elements of a homeostatic loop. He then descri...
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Homeostasis.wmv
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Video acerca de los Procesos de Regulación de los seres vivos.
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Homeostasis Español.avi
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8:35Homeostasis Hugs
Homeostasis HugsHomeostasis Hugs
Paul Andersen explains how hugs between tissues can help maintain homeostasis. Countercurrent heat exchange allows heat to stay within the core of the body. ...
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Homeostasis SongHomeostasis Song
Here is a song I created to help my 6th grade students study. I hope you enjoy. For internal balance your body in control Keeping body levels just like they ...
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- Anthony Wilden
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- Decision theory
- Dehydration
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- Diameter
- Dimethyl sulfide
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Ecological island
- Ectotherm
- Emergence
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- Erich von Holst
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- Frederic Vester
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- Humberto Maturana
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- Hypoglycemia
- Hypothalamus
- Igor Aleksander
- Information theory
- Innate immune system
- Insulin
- Island Biogeography
- Jacque Fresco
- Jakob von Uexküll
- James Lovelock
- Jay Wright Forrester
- John N. Warfield
- Kevin Warwick
- Kidney
- Krakatoa
- Lenz's law
- Limiting factor
- Medical cybernetics
- Metabolism
- Milieu interieur
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- Negative feedback
- Neurocybernetics
- New Cybernetics
- Niklas Luhmann
- Norbert Wiener
- Oligomer
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- Positive feedback
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- Robert Trappl
- Rock (geology)
- Semiotics
- Senescence
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- Sergei P. Kurdyumov
- Snake
- Sociocybernetics
- Stuart Kauffman
- Stuart Umpleby
- Sun
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- Synergetics (Haken)
- Talcott Parsons
- Talk Homeostasis
- Tarantula
- Template Cybernetics
- TLR 5
- Toll-like receptor
- TOLLIP
- Urea
- Urine
- Valentin Braitenberg
- Valentin Turchin
- Vasoconstriction
- Vasodilation
- Walter Pitts
- Warren McCulloch
- William Ross Ashby
- Anthony Wilden
- Buckminster Fuller
- Claude Bernard
- Cliff Joslyn
- Erich von Holst
- Francis Heylighen
- Francisco Varela
- Frederic Clements
- Frederic Vester
- George Leonard
- Gordon Pask
- Heinz von Foerster
- Humberto Maturana
- Igor Aleksander
- Jacque Fresco
- Jakob von Uexküll
- James Lovelock
- Jay Wright Forrester
- Kevin Warwick
- Niklas Luhmann
- Norbert Wiener
- Robert Trappl
- Stuart Kauffman
- Stuart Umpleby
- Talcott Parsons
- Valentin Turchin
- Walter Pitts
- William Ross Ashby
Homeostasis in the Human Body [3D Animation]
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- Duration: 5:09
- Updated: 05 Mar 2014
See an organised list of all the animations: http://doctorprodigious.wordpress.com/hd-animations/
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See an organised list of all the animations: http://doctorprodigious.wordpress.com/hd-animations/
- published: 05 Mar 2014
- views: 39
Unit 4 Review - Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 15:00
- Updated: 08 Aug 2013
Paul Andersen reviews the major concepts within the fourth unit of the new AP Biology framework. He begins by differentiating between negative and positive f...
http://wn.com/Unit_4_Review_Homeostasis
Paul Andersen reviews the major concepts within the fourth unit of the new AP Biology framework. He begins by differentiating between negative and positive f...
- published: 13 Jan 2012
- views: 20570
- author: bozemanbiology
Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 15 Aug 2013
Science Help at Brightstorm! http://brightstorm.com/science The definition and importance of homeostasis.
http://wn.com/Homeostasis
Science Help at Brightstorm! http://brightstorm.com/science The definition and importance of homeostasis.
- published: 31 Aug 2010
- views: 54036
- author: Brightstorm
HOMEOSTASIS Y MEDIO INTERNO (Retroalimentación Positiva y Negativa)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:21
- Updated: 25 Jul 2013
Homeostasis Medio interno Suscribete a nuestra organización de estudiantes ayudando a otros estudiantes y así podrás ver las actualizaciones: FACEBOOK: https...
http://wn.com/HOMEOSTASIS_Y_MEDIO_INTERNO_Retroalimentación_Positiva_y_Negativa
Homeostasis Medio interno Suscribete a nuestra organización de estudiantes ayudando a otros estudiantes y así podrás ver las actualizaciones: FACEBOOK: https...
- published: 24 Jul 2013
- views: 7
- author: Angelo Castro Estrada
Homeostasis 1, Physiological Principles
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:13
- Updated: 17 Aug 2013
Homeostasis Introduction Homeo - same Stasis -- standing still Dynamic equilibrium Disruptors Detectors Control system Effectors Body made of billions of cel...
http://wn.com/Homeostasis_1,_Physiological_Principles
Homeostasis Introduction Homeo - same Stasis -- standing still Dynamic equilibrium Disruptors Detectors Control system Effectors Body made of billions of cel...
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 2586
- author: John Campbell
Positive and Negative Feedback Loops
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:26
- Updated: 19 Aug 2013
018 - Positive and Negative Feedback Loops Paul Andersen explains how feedback loops allow living organisms to maintain homeostasis. He uses thermoregulation...
http://wn.com/Positive_and_Negative_Feedback_Loops
018 - Positive and Negative Feedback Loops Paul Andersen explains how feedback loops allow living organisms to maintain homeostasis. He uses thermoregulation...
- published: 11 Jul 2011
- views: 130893
- author: bozemanbiology
How our body temperature is maintained - Homeostasis being explained in a simple language
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:34
- Updated: 16 Jun 2013
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mashmedics Click Subscribe to remain updated. Visit our website to get other medical related material. http:/...
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- published: 21 Feb 2013
- views: 655
- author: mashmedics
Homeostatic Loops
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:51
- Updated: 17 Aug 2013
Paul Andersen describes four important homeostatic loops in biology. He begins with a brief description of the elements of a homeostatic loop. He then descri...
http://wn.com/Homeostatic_Loops
Paul Andersen describes four important homeostatic loops in biology. He begins with a brief description of the elements of a homeostatic loop. He then descri...
- published: 31 Mar 2012
- views: 10674
- author: bozemanbiology
Homeostasis.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 01 Dec 2011
Video acerca de los Procesos de Regulación de los seres vivos.
http://wn.com/Homeostasiswmv
Video acerca de los Procesos de Regulación de los seres vivos.
- published: 01 Dec 2011
- views: 2214
Homeostasis Español.avi
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 15 Aug 2013
http://wn.com/Homeostasis_Españolavi
Homeostasis Hugs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:35
- Updated: 13 Jul 2013
Paul Andersen explains how hugs between tissues can help maintain homeostasis. Countercurrent heat exchange allows heat to stay within the core of the body. ...
http://wn.com/Homeostasis_Hugs
Paul Andersen explains how hugs between tissues can help maintain homeostasis. Countercurrent heat exchange allows heat to stay within the core of the body. ...
- published: 24 Nov 2011
- views: 6024
- author: bozemanbiology
Homeostasis Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 09 Aug 2013
Here is a song I created to help my 6th grade students study. I hope you enjoy. For internal balance your body in control Keeping body levels just like they ...
http://wn.com/Homeostasis_Song
Here is a song I created to help my 6th grade students study. I hope you enjoy. For internal balance your body in control Keeping body levels just like they ...
- published: 24 May 2012
- views: 29307
- author: ParrMr
Episodio #162: Homeostasis - Balance, la lucha del cuerpo
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:50
- Updated: 12 Aug 2013
http://www.metabolismotv.com/ --http://www.libroparabajardepeso.com/ Descubre tu metabolismo junto con el autor Frank Suárez, especialista en Obesidad y Meta...
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http://www.metabolismotv.com/ --http://www.libroparabajardepeso.com/ Descubre tu metabolismo junto con el autor Frank Suárez, especialista en Obesidad y Meta...
- published: 15 May 2012
- views: 3575
- author: MetabolismoTV
BBC Short Circuit Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 19:00
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
Short Circuit - Homeostasis Leah Betts was a girl who died a horrible death from taking one ecstasy tablet at her own 18th birthday party. Temperature, body ...
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Short Circuit - Homeostasis Leah Betts was a girl who died a horrible death from taking one ecstasy tablet at her own 18th birthday party. Temperature, body ...
- published: 13 Nov 2012
- views: 832
- author: Lammas Science
New GCSE BBC Bitesize Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:32
- Updated: 20 Sep 2013
http://wn.com/New_GCSE_BBC_Bitesize_Homeostasis
- published: 20 Sep 2013
- views: 0
Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:42
- Updated: 08 May 2013
This biology video will help you understand the process of thermoregulation.
http://wn.com/Homeostasis
This biology video will help you understand the process of thermoregulation.
- published: 27 May 2009
- views: 118267
- author: microtech23
Amoeba Sisters Present: Homeostasis and the Cell Membrane King
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 04 Aug 2013
We are in awe of the cell membrane! Why? It keeps us in homeostasis! Let the Amoeba Sisters tell you how!
We always welcome comments, but we do have our comments on "approval" only. Criticism is fine, but this is an education channel. No bad language or discriminatory comments allowed. In other words, don't put anything here you wouldn't tell grandma.
Like our music? It's from OC Remix. HUGE thank you to Adrian Holovaty, the incredible composer. You can download the song here: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01466/
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http://wn.com/Amoeba_Sisters_Present_Homeostasis_and_the_Cell_Membrane_King
We are in awe of the cell membrane! Why? It keeps us in homeostasis! Let the Amoeba Sisters tell you how!
We always welcome comments, but we do have our comments on "approval" only. Criticism is fine, but this is an education channel. No bad language or discriminatory comments allowed. In other words, don't put anything here you wouldn't tell grandma.
Like our music? It's from OC Remix. HUGE thank you to Adrian Holovaty, the incredible composer. You can download the song here: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01466/
Visit our Website: www.AmoebaSisters.weebly.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/AmoebaSisters
- published: 04 Aug 2013
- views: 10
Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 13 Aug 2013
How does your body regulate your body temperature?
http://wn.com/Homeostasis
How does your body regulate your body temperature?
- published: 23 Oct 2012
- views: 11180
- author: MITK12Videos
Big Bang Theory Homeostasis
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:27
- Updated: 28 Jun 2013
Sheldon Cooper's theory on homeostasis.
http://wn.com/Big_Bang_Theory_Homeostasis
Homeostasis - Marathon
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:56
- Updated: 30 May 2013
http://wn.com/Homeostasis_Marathon
Bone Homeostasis (Calcium and Phosphate) Hormones
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 07 Aug 2013
Part III.
http://wn.com/Bone_Homeostasis_Calcium_and_Phosphate_Hormones
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20 Jun 2014
Islamist-led militants and pro-government forces are engaged in fierce battles for the Baiji oil refinery and Tal Afar airport in northern Iraq. Baiji, Iraq's biggest refinery, is surrounded by the rebels, who say they have seized most of Tal Afar airport. The fighting comes a day after the US said it would send some 300 military advisers to help the fight against the insurgents ... Analysis. Nick Bryant, BBC news, Washington ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
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21 Jun 2014
See Also. Pope Francis journeyed Saturday to the heart of Italy’s biggest crime syndicate and declared that all mobsters are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church ... “Those who go down the evil path, as the Mafiosi do, are not in communion with God. They are excommunicated,” he warned during his homily at an outdoor Mass ... The attackers torched the car with all three victims inside ... Copyright 2014 ... email ... OR ... ....(size: 7.8Kb)
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20 Jun 2014
People are hiding from health care workers. New cases are turning up in unexpected places. And even at funerals, proper precautions aren't taken to stop the spread of the disease. These are a few of the signs that, in the words of public health specialist Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, the Ebola outbreak that began in West Africa in February is "not under control yet." ... Shots - Health News ... "We are spread thin." ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
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20 Jun 2014
Cytokines, a major group in the protein therapeutics umbrella, are known to be soluble extracellular proteins or glycoproteins which are crucial intercellular regulators, having the capacity to mobilize the cells which are engaged in innate as well as adaptive inflammatory host defenses, cell growth, differentiation, cell death, angiogenesis, and development and repair processes aimed at the restoration of homeostasis ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
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PR Newswire
20 Jun 2014
Cytokines, a major group in the protein therapeutics umbrella, are known to be soluble extracellular proteins or glycoproteins which are crucial intercellular regulators, having the capacity to mobilize the cells which are engaged in innate as well as adaptive inflammatory host defenses, cell growth, differentiation, cell death, angiogenesis, and development and repair processes aimed at the restoration of homeostasis ... 64 ... 25 ... 15 ... 67 ... ... ....(size: 3.9Kb)
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The Examiner
20 Jun 2014
The Aging Factor ... Sahelian ... What needs to be evaluated right now is whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder ... It now needs to be evaluated whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder.” ... It now needs to be evaluated whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder.”....(size: 31.1Kb)
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Professor Richard Bond and Dr Mitchell Glass discuss the science behind INV102(nadolol) with BRR media (Invion Limited)
noodls18 Jun 2014
(Source. Invion Limited). ASX / MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT. 18 June 2014 PROFESSOR RICHARD BOND AND DR MITCHELL GLASS DISCUSS THE SCIENCE BEHIND INV102(nadolol) WITH BRR MEDIA ... http.//www.brr.com.au/event/124041 ... INV103 (ala-Cpn10) is a modified, naturally occurring human protein which has been proposed as a founding member of the Resolution Associated Molecular Pattern (RAMPs) family hypothesised to maintain and restore immune homeostasis....(size: 3.3Kb)
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MicroBiome Therapeutics Cites Proof Of Concept Study Showing Metformin Improves Glycemic Control In Diabetes By Shifting The GI Microbiome
PR Newswire17 Jun 2014
Akkermansia acts to increase the number of goblet cells in the gut ... Dr ... Session ... Date ... Title ... population induced by metformin treatment improves glucose homeostasis in diet-induced obese mice", Na-Ri Shin, June-Chul Lee, Hae-Youn Lee, Min-Soo Kim, Tae Woong Whon, Myung-Shik Lee, Jin-Woo Bae, Gut 2014;63.727–735, doi.10.1136/gutjnl-2012-303839 http.//gut.bmj.com/content/63/5/727.full.pdf+html?sid=e07f016c-8cd7-4f28-a422-dc9524b3b834....(size: 7.5Kb)
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Data Presented at ADA Show the Effects of GI Dynamics’ EndoBarrier® Therapy on Glycemic Control and Reducing Diabetes Medication in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
Business Wire16 Jun 2014
Findings from the study, “The Acute Effect of EndoBarrier Treatment on Glucose Homeostasis in Obese Uncontrolled Diabetic Subjects,” evaluated the effects of the EndoBarrier device on glucose homeostasis, HbA1c, weight loss, insulin requirements and appetite in 33 patients ... “The ability of the EndoBarrier to acutely affect glucose homeostasis, ......(size: 10.7Kb)
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Data Presented at ADA Show the Effects of GI Dynamics’ EndoBarrier® Therapy on Glycemic Control and Reducing Diabetes Medication in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity (GI Dynamics Inc)
noodls16 Jun 2014
Findings from the study, "The Acute Effect of EndoBarrier Treatment on Glucose Homeostasis in Obese Uncontrolled Diabetic Subjects," evaluated the effects of the EndoBarrier device on glucose homeostasis, HbA1c, weight loss, insulin requirements and appetite in 33 patients ... "The ability of the EndoBarrier to acutely affect glucose homeostasis, ......(size: 9.2Kb)
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16 Jun 2014
Functionalities such as higher absorption and moisture adaptability differentiate Enluxtra from competitors ... The dressing's ability to automatically adjust its function depending on the wound's needs allows clinicians to keep the dressing on the wound significantly longer, resulting in fewer disruptions of wound homeostasis, which is a known critical condition for fast wound healing ... About OSNovative Systems Inc ... Polinak@osnovation.com....(size: 5.1Kb)
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The Examiner
13 Jun 2014
The findings could potentially give rise to new treatments for osteoporosis, the researchers say. Orexins are a type of protein used by nerve cells to communicate with each other ... These findings reveal orexin as a critical rheostat of skeletal homeostasis that exerts a yin-yang dual regulation and highlight orexin as a therapeutic target for osteoporosis, says the study's abstract ... Orexins seem to play a dual role in the process ... Dr ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)
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The Examiner
12 Jun 2014
A full stomach however, is not the only trigger contributing factor to feeling full ... A disruption of this chemistry can result it a disruption of the homeostasis within the body ... we are in a good mood ... Genes, chronic disease states and disruptions in the chemistry of the other hormones and neurotransmitters can result it a disruption of the homeostasis within the body including serotonin production and how the body processes serotonin....(size: 4.8Kb)
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12 Jun 2014
REHOVOT, , June 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --. D-Pharm Ltd. (TASE. DPRM) announced today, publication in PLOS ONE, of promising results from a study of its drug candidate DP-b99 ... ... 2), 15) ... Leszek Kaczmarek. Our collaboration with Prof ... Disrupted metal ion homeostasis is symptomatic of numerous diseases, ranging from inflammation, cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and acute stroke to chronic neuro-degeneration (e.g ... Disclaimer ....(size: 4.1Kb)
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PNAS
11 Jun 2014
Abstract. Successful B cell differentiation and prevention of cell transformation depends on balanced and fine-tuned activation of cellular signaling pathways. The phosphatidyl inositol-3 kinase (PI3K) signaling pathway has emerged as a major regulator of B lymphocyte homeostasis and function ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)
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Heart- and muscle-derived signaling system dependent on MED13 and Wingless controls obesity in Drosophila
PNAS11 Jun 2014
Obesity develops in response to an imbalance of energy homeostasis and whole-body metabolism. Muscle plays a central role in the control of energy homeostasis through consumption of energy and signaling to adipose tissue ... appears to represent an ancestral mechanism for the control of systemic energy homeostasis....(size: 1.5Kb)
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Homeostasis (from Greek: ὅμοιος, hómoios, "similar", and στάσις, stásis, "standing still") is the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition of properties such as temperature or pH. It can be either an open or closed system.
It was defined by Claude Bernard and later by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926, 1929 and 1932.
Typically used to refer to a living organism, the concept came from that of milieu intérieur that was created by Claude Bernard and published in 1865. Multiple dynamic equilibrium adjustment and regulation mechanisms make homeostasis possible.
With regard to any given life system parameter, an organism may be a conformer or a regulator. On one hand, regulators try to maintain the parameter at a constant level over possibly wide ambient environmental variations. On the other hand, conformers allow the environment to determine the parameter. For instance, endothermic animals (mammals and birds) maintain a constant body temperature, while ectothermic animals (almost all other organisms) exhibit wide body temperature variation.
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