respiratory

Thermoregulation

...emperature by using their nervous , endocrine , respiratory and circulatory systems . The heat of the body ...oea and soon exhausts the metabolic capital of the respiratory centre. The rate of the heart is quickened, the beats then become irregular and finally cease. The c...

Muscle

...number of diseases affecting blood vessels , the respiratory tract (e.g. asthma ), the digestive system (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome ) and the urinary tract (e.g. urinary incontinence ). These disease processes are not usually confined to the muscular tissue. The strongest human muscle Depending ...

Lung

...y ) The lung is an organ belonging to the respiratory system and interfacing to the circulatory system...ne breath of air to make its way through the avian respiratory system. Avian lungs do not have alveoli, as mammalian lungs do, but instead contain millions of tin...

Insulin

...UT2 Glucose goes into the glycolysis and the respiratory cycle where the high-energy ATP molecule is produced by oxidation Dependent on blood glucose levels and hence ATP levels, the ATP controlled potassium channels (K+) close and the cell membranes depolarise On depolarisation , voltage contro...

Hormone

... steroids (for autoimmune diseases and several respiratory disorders ). Insulin is used by many diabetics . Local preparations for use in otolaryngology often contain pharmacologic equivalents of adrenalin , while steroid and vitamin D creams are used extensively in dermatological practice. A " ...

Fungus

...er Normal flora Transferrin Cilia of respiratory tract . When fungi do pass the resistance barriers of the human body and establish infections, the infections are classified according to the tissue levels initially colonized. A fungal infection of the human body is called a mycosis . The most c...

Drosophila

...e eggs, each with a pair of “wings” or respiratory “horns” near the anterior end; the eggs of all known Drosophila have one or more of these horns, the tips of which extend above the surface of the moist media in which the eggs develop. Predators One predator is the orchid mantis ...

Diffusion

...fusion in cell biology 2.1.1 Diffusion in the respiratory system 2.1.2 Facilitated diffusion 2.1.3 Net f... Diffusion in cell biology Diffusion in the respiratory system In mammalian lungs , a process of diffusion takes place in the aveoli : due to difference...

Colchicine

... abdominal pain and kidney failure . Death from respiratory failure can follow. There is no antidote. Laboratory use In laboratory setting colchicine is also used for inducing polyploidy in plant cells during cellular division. External links Feature on colchicine Pharmacology of colchicine...

Blood

...simply dissolved in the plasma. Larger animals use respiratory proteins to increase the oxygen carrying capacity. Hemoglobin is the most common respiratory protein found in nature. Hemocyanin (blue) contains copper and is used in crustaceans and mol...

Biology

...als such as the nervous , immune , endocrine , respiratory and circulatory systems function and interact. The study of these systems is shared with the medically oriented disciplines of neurology , immunology and the like. Diversity and evolution of organisms In population genetics ...

ATP synthase

...y particles and were thought to contain the entire respiratory apparatus of the mitochondrion, but through a long...asts the protonmotive force is generated not by respiratory electron transport chain, but by primary photosynthetic proteins - photosystems I and II and cytoch...

Alcohol

...on the dose and regularity of use, can cause acute respiratory failure or death and with chronic use can cause severe health problems, such as liver and brain damage. Other alcohols are substantially more poisonous than ethanol, partly because they take much longer to be metabolized, and often their metabol...