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Understanding Homeostasis Mechanisms

Homeostasis refers to the body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions necessary for survival, even when external conditions change. The body uses negative and positive feedback mechanisms to regulate physiological variables like temperature and blood glucose levels. Negative feedback opposes changes from the set point, while positive feedback amplifies changes to move further from the set point. Key components of homeostasis include receptors, control centers, and effectors that work to detect changes, send signals, and trigger responses to maintain balance.

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Understanding Homeostasis Mechanisms

Homeostasis refers to the body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions necessary for survival, even when external conditions change. The body uses negative and positive feedback mechanisms to regulate physiological variables like temperature and blood glucose levels. Negative feedback opposes changes from the set point, while positive feedback amplifies changes to move further from the set point. Key components of homeostasis include receptors, control centers, and effectors that work to detect changes, send signals, and trigger responses to maintain balance.

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Homeostasis

OVERVIEW
Homeostasis
Negative Feedback Mechanism
Positive Feedback Mechanism
OBJECTIVES: After browsing the powerpoint,
the students should be able to:
1. Define homeostasis and relate its
importance to health and diseases; and By Dr. Imelda R. Romero
Department of Biological Sciences
2. Compare and contrast the positive and School of Science and Technology
negative feedback systems. Centro Escolar University
Manila
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Homeostasis
“homeo”: same
“stasis”: standing or status

Balancing Act

To maintain a relatively
constant internal
environment

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Homeostasis

Body Systems are


Interdependent

They work together to


maintain this stable
internal environment

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Homeostasis
What is a
Organ systems SET POINT?
work together

To keep within the


range around the
set point

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Chemical reactions Level at which a
within cells work most variable physiological
effectively within a
certain range of state tends to
conditions stabilize

Set Point
NOT a
Dynamic
fixed value

Within the
Normal Range
Components
Control Center
Receives and process
information
Receptor Effector
Sensor that is sensitive Cell or organ that responds
to a stimulus to the control center

Stressor Response
Environmental change Change in the body to
that signals the body maintain homeostasis
Negative Feedback

• Effector opposes or eliminates stimulus


• Results in a reversal of the direction of
change
• Tends to stabilize a system correcting
deviations from the set point
Negative Feedback

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Blood Sugar Regulation

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Positive Feedback
• Initial stimulus produces a response that
exaggerates or enhances its effects
• Stimulus is promoted
• Amplifies the state or output of the
system
• “The more there is, the more is added”
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Blood Clotting

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Homeostasis allows If homeostasis is not
an organism to maintained, it can
remain in balance harm or kill the
with its environment organism

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