Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Homeostasis
- SUGAR CONTENT
- Diabetes
- Type 1
- Genetic disorder
- Failure to produce enough insulin
- Insulin injections required
- Type 2
- Failure to respond to insulin
- Don't eat too much carbohydrates
- Insulin
- Produced by the pancreas
- Acts on the liver
- Converts excess glucose to glycogen
- Glucagon converts glycogen back to glucose
- MINERAL/ION CONTENT
- WATER CONTENT
- Gain
- Respiring
- Drinking
- Eating
- Loss
- Defecating
- Urinating
- Breathing
- Sweating
- Kidney
- ADH
- Hormone controls the amount of water taken
back into the blood
- Produced by the pituitary gland
- Alcohol reduces ADH release
- Ecstasy increases ADH release
- TEMPERATURE
- 37 degrees
- Vasodilation
- Increased sweat production
- Widened blood vessels
- Blood flow nearer
skin surface
- Vasoconstriction
- Decreased sweat production
- Closing down of blood
vessels close to skin
- Too low - hypothermia
- Too high - heat stroke
- Thermoregulatory centre