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Homeostatic Feedback System for Elevated Body Temperature

Unit Details Unit Code: 401002 Unit Name: Bioscience 1 Credit Points: 10 Unit Level: 1 Assumed Knowledge: None Note: Students with any problems, concerns or doubts should discuss those with the Unit Coordinator as early as they can. Unit Coordinator Name: Dr Anna Maceri Phone: (02) 4570 1574 Email: 401002@westernsydney.edu.au Consultation Arrangement: Contact Protocol Your tutor is the point of first contact for students who have queries relating to the unit. If you are unable to contact your Tutor please contact the Unit Coordinator or Deputy Unit Coordinator. If the staff member is not available leave a telephone message, including your name and contact telephone number, alternatively, you can send an email. Email communication with academic staff must be via Western Sydney University student email accounts only. Emails sent from any non-Western Sydney University address will not receive a response. Student Email Accounts can be activated via the Western Sydney University Home page from Western Central. Student Consultation Tutors will advise of consultation times on the vUWS site or outside their offices or in the School of Nursing and Midwifery reception area. If you are unable to contact your tutor

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This article explains the homeostatic feedback system that is activated in response to elevated body temperature. It discusses the stimulus-receptors-control center-effectors-response process and the role of the hypothalamus in thermoregulation.

Homeostatic Feedback System for Elevated Body Temperature

Unit Details Unit Code: 401002 Unit Name: Bioscience 1 Credit Points: 10 Unit Level: 1 Assumed Knowledge: None Note: Students with any problems, concerns or doubts should discuss those with the Unit Coordinator as early as they can. Unit Coordinator Name: Dr Anna Maceri Phone: (02) 4570 1574 Email: 401002@westernsydney.edu.au Consultation Arrangement: Contact Protocol Your tutor is the point of first contact for students who have queries relating to the unit. If you are unable to contact your Tutor please contact the Unit Coordinator or Deputy Unit Coordinator. If the staff member is not available leave a telephone message, including your name and contact telephone number, alternatively, you can send an email. Email communication with academic staff must be via Western Sydney University student email accounts only. Emails sent from any non-Western Sydney University address will not receive a response. Student Email Accounts can be activated via the Western Sydney University Home page from Western Central. Student Consultation Tutors will advise of consultation times on the vUWS site or outside their offices or in the School of Nursing and Midwifery reception area. If you are unable to contact your tutor

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Describe the homeostatic feedback system (i.e. stimulus- receptors- control center-
e ectors- response, series of steps) that would be activated in response to elevated bodyff
temperature.
Homeostasis is the tendency to acquire a state of equilibrium between two or more
interdependent elements, especially so as to maintain physiological processes (Solomon, 2015).
Therefore, the homeostatic feedback system or homeostatic regulation is the adjustment of
physiological systems in the human body to maintain homeostasis. Homeostatic regulation
applies two mechanisms which are: autoregulation or intrinsic regulation and the extrinsic
regulation. The former occurs when the organs or tissue of the body adjust automatically to the
changes in the environment. In extrinsic regulation two organs system that controls or adjust the
activities of many systems such as the endocrine system are involved. The homeostatic
regulation tries to maintain the body internal environment within certain limits. There are three
parts of the regulatory mechanism; A receptor that is sensitive to change in environment or
stimulus, a control center which receives information from the receptor and processes it and
thirdly the effector which receives the commands of the control center.
Therefore, in the case of elevated temperature, the body will try to maintain the temperature
within the normal range of 35.5-37 degrees Celsius. The hypothalamus is the control center for
thermoregulation. When the temperature rises above normal the thermoreceptors will send a
signal to the control center which will target the sweat glands and tissues of muscles in the walls
of the blood vessels supplying the skin (effectors) (Solomon, 2015). The muscles relax and the
blood vessels dilate thus allowing increase in blood flow near the skin surface and by so doing
heat is lost to the environment. The sweat pores too will open as the sweat glands are also
activated via the cholinergic sympathetic nerves to produce sweat. As the sweat escapes through
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