Sentence examples for homeostasis from inspiring English sources

An INVOcell gets around all this by using the putative mother's own body to provide the necessary homeostasis for the eggs to thrive.Standard IVF procedure is to incubate embryos for five days before they are implanted into the mother's womb.

This scenario offers a sort of homeostasis, in which nothing considerably worsens or improves.

"Regardless of age, when you have an extra copy of a gene inserted into your body it throws off homeostasis, and we can notice that things are not biochemically in balance," says Dr Schamasch.

Other cerebral structures include the hypothalamus, which controls metabolism and maintains homeostasis, and the thalamus, a principal sensory relay centre.

The process thus promotes homeostasis, the constancy of the organism's internal environment.

This system incorporates the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR which is stimulated by the hormone aldosterone and regulates electrolyte homeostasis and blood pressure and the glucocorticoid receptor (GR)—which is stimulated by the hormone cortisol and regulates metabolism, inflammation, and immunity.

The concept of drive is closely tied to the concept of homeostasis.

This is true, with greater force, of the mechanisms of homeostasis, the ability of organisms to maintain internal stability.

Hormone, organic substance secreted by plants and animals that functions in the regulation of physiological activities and in maintaining homeostasis.

Some of the mechanisms vital to the maintenance of health include (1) the maintenance of the internal environment, or homeostasis, (2) adaptation to stress situations, (3) defense against microbiological agents, such as bacteria and viruses, (4) repair and regeneration of damaged tissue or cells, and (5) clotting of the blood to prevent excessive bleeding.

One of the remarkable features of the respiratory control system is that ventilation increases sufficiently to keep the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood nearly unchanged despite the large increases in metabolic rate that can occur with exercise, thus preserving acid base homeostasis.