Endomembrane system
The endomembrane
system is the
system of internal membranes within eukaryotic cells that divide the cell into functional and structural compartments, or organelles . Prokaryotes do not have an endomembrane
system and thus lack most organelles.
The endomembrane
system also provides a t...
Immune system
The immune
system is the collection of organs and tissues involved in the adaptive defense of a body against foreign biological material. It may be broken down into the adaptive immune
system (only found in vertebrates [1] ), composed of four lymphoid organs ( thymus , lymph nodes , spleen an...
Limbic system
The limbic
system is a group of brain structures that are involved in various emotions such as aggression , fear , pleasure and also in the formation of memory . The limbic
system affects the endocrine
system and the autonomic nervous
system . It consists of several subcortical str...
Nervous system
The nervous
system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles , monitors the organs , constructs and processes input from the senses , and initiates actions . (see Central Nervous
System ).
In animals with brains , the nervous
system also generates and conducts thoughts and e...
Vestibular system
The vestibular
system , or balance
system , is the sensory system
that provides the dominant input about our movement and orientation in
space. Together with the cochlea, the auditory organ, it is situated in the
vestibulum in the inner ear (Figure 1). As our movements consist of
rotations and...
Activation energy
... The activation energy in chemistry is the energy needed by a
system to initiate a particular process. Activation energy is often used to denote...emperature, because temperature is a measure of the average energy of the
system - individual molecules can have more or less energy than the average. Incre...
Anatomy
...rst a description of the structures of an organ or
system (such as nerves , arteries , heart , and so for...s built.
Major body systems:
Integumentary
system
Muscular
system
Nervous...
Animal
...nimals have bodies differentiated into separate tissues . These include muscles , which are able to contract and control locomotion, and a nervous
system , which sends and processes signals. There is also typically an internal digestive chamber, with one or two openings. Animals with this sort of orga...
Andrew Huxley
... on the basis of nerve " action potentials ," the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous
system . Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles , who was cited for research on synapses . Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led ...
Antibody
... An antibody is a protein used by the immune
system to identify and neutralize foreign objects like ...mbinations. The main reason that the human immune
system is capable of binding so many antigens is the vari...arate gene for each possible antigen, the immune
system would require many more genes than exist in the g...
Antigenic shift
... strains of influenza combine to form a new subtype having a mixture of the surface antigens of the two original strains. Because the human immune
system has difficulty recognizing the new influenza strain, it may be highly dangerous.
Antigenic shift is contrasted with antigenic drift which is th...
Apoptosis
... tissue or from a cell that is part of the immune
system .
If a cell's capability of apoptosis is damage...le, as part of the hijacking of the cell's genetic
system carried out by human papillomaviruses (HPV), a g... and attack healthy body cells. The way the immune
system regulates this process is by "deleting" both the i...
Artificial life
... consisting of a "head" and "tail" boxcar could use the simple rules of the
system to consistently create new "organisms" identical to itself, so long as ther...n we say that a system, or a subsystem, is alive?"
"What is the smallest
system that we can consider alive?"
"Why is nature able to achieve an open-ende...
Axon
...ect the primary transmission lines of the nervous
system , and as bundles they help make up nerves . Indiv...drocytes insulating those of the central nervous
system . Along myelinated nerve fibers, gaps in the shea...of the first intracellular recordings in a nervous
system were made in the late 1930's by K. Cole and H. Cur...
Barr body
...xpression on the inactive X-chromosome and to bring about its compaction to form the Barr body.
See also
X-inactivation
Sex-determination
system
Lyon hypothesis .
...
Biology
...tae -- Animalia
However, this five-kingdom
system is now considered by many to be outdated. More mod...lternatives generally begin with the three-domain
system :
Archaea (originally Archaebacteria) -- Ba...a , archaea , and eukaryotes (see Three domain
system ).
Homeostasis: adapting to change
Main a...
Biodiversity
...ctive. The loss of a species is thus likely to decreases the ability of the
system to maintain itself or to recover from damage or disturbance. Just like a sp...d.
Biodiversity: time and space
Biodiversity is not static: it is a
system in constant evolution, from a species, as well as from an individual organ...
Barbiturate
... Barbiturates are drugs that acts as central nervous
system (CNS) depressants , and by virtue of this they produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to anesthesia . Some also are used as anti...
Biological tissue
...ts that move past each other and change the size of the cell.
Nervous tissue - cells forming the brain , spinal cord and peripheral nervous
system
Examples of tissue in other multicellular organisms are vascular tissue in plants , such as xylem and phloem . Plant tissues are categori...
Blood
...ts, and contains various components of the immune
system defending the body against infection . Hormones...to the heart through the veins .
See circulatory
system for a more detailed description of this circulati...ls or leukocytes (3.0%), are part of the immune
system ; they destroy infectious agents.
Platelets o...
Botany
...have been extenisvely used as pollution indicators
So in many different ways, plants can act a bit like the ' miners canary ', an early warning
system alerting us to important changes in our environment. In addition to these practical and scientific reasons, plants are extremely valuable as recreat...
Brain
...phalon , is the supervisory center of the nervous
system . Although the brain is usually cited as the super...so be used for the invertebrate central nervous
system . In most animals, the brain is located in the he...ure known as neocortex .
The meninges are the
system of membranes that separate the skull from the brai...
Cancer
...ildren occurs during the first year of life. Neuroblastoma is the most common infant malignancy, followed by the leukemias and the central nervous
system cancers. Female infants and male infants have essentially the same overall cancer incidence rates, but white infants have substantially higher cancer ...
Carnivore
... This article deals with meat-eating animals. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has an e-mail tapping
system named Carnivore . There also is a thrash metal band from New York named Carnivore .
Carnivores are animals that eat a diet consisting...
Carolus Linnaeus
...anged in a simple and orderly manner. Although the
system now known as binomial nomenclature was develope...hat became known as the Linnaean taxonomy : the
system of scientific classification now widely used in the biological sciences .
The Linnaean
system classified living things within a hierarchy , sta...
Cartilage
...If cartilage is transformed to bone, the perichondrium becomes the periosteum.
Growth / Development
Chondrification
Most of the skeletal
system is derived from mesoderm tissue. Chondrification is the process in which cartilage is formed from condensed mesenchyme tissue, which differentia...
Cell growth
...formed from a parental cell. Typical stem cells reproduce, double in size, then reproduce again. Most Cytosolic contents such as the endomembrane
system and the cytoplasm easily scale to larger sizes in larger cells. If a cell becomes too large, the normal cellular amount of DNA may not be adequat...
Chloroplast membrane
...s , but the inner membrane is highly specialised with transport proteins .
Within the inner membrane, in the region called the stroma , there is a
system of interconecting flattened membrane compartments, called the lamellae , or thylakoid membrane . These are sites of light absorption and ATP s...
Chromosome
... a detailed graphical display of all human chromosomes and the diseases annotated at the correct spot at [2] .
See also
XY sex-determination
system
Genetic deletion
External links
What Can Our Chromosomes Tell Us? ,an accessible and comprehensive look at chromosomes, from the Univer...
Chromatography
... solvent , through the "stationary phase." The stationary phase retards the passage of the components of the sample. When components pass through the
system at different rates they become separated in time, like runners in a marathon. Ideally, each component has a characteristic time of passage through th...
Cladistics
...nce the 1960s, called cladism or cladistic taxonomy , has been to require taxa to be clades. In other words cladists argue that the classification
system should be reformed to eliminate all non-clades. In contrast, other evolutionary taxonomists insist that groups reflect phylogenies and often make u...
Common descent
...ts of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian
system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."
The famous closing ... ( UCD ) for all bacteria , archaea , and eukaryotes (see Three domain
system ). Analysis of the small differences in the genetic code has also provided ...
Computed axial tomography
...3 Diagnostic use
3.1 Cranial CT
3.2 Chest CT
3.3 Abdominal and pelvic CT
3.4 Extremities
4 See also
History
The CT
system was invented in 1972 by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield of EMI Central Research Laboratories (now Sensura [1] owned by Creative Technology Ltd.) us...
Culture
...iety or nation.
Culture is a part of the social
system and hierarchically equal to an economic
system , political
system , or legal...
Cytoskeleton
...orm a helical network beneath the cell membrane that guides the proteins involved in cell wall biosynthesis .
Some plasmids encode a partitioning
system that involves an actin-like protein ParM . Filaments of ParM exhibit dynamic instability , and may partition plasmid DNA into the dividing daughter ce...
Diabetes mellitus
...oimmune disorder , in which the body's own immune
system attacks the beta cells in the Islets of Langerha... sympathetic activation of the autonomic nervous
system - they may experience feelings similar to dread an...older style (ie, optical color sensing) monitoring
system
Prolonged and elevated levels of glucose in t...
Digestion
... Digestion usually involves mechanical manipulation and chemical action. In most vertebrates , digestion is a multi-stage process in the digestive
system , following ingestion of the raw materials, most often other organisms. The process of ingestion usually involves some type of mechanical manipulat...
Diffusion
...biology
2.1.1 Diffusion in the respiratory
system
2.1.2 Facilitated diffusion
2.1.3 Net flux ... in cell biology
Diffusion in the respiratory
system
In mammalian lungs , a process of diffusion ta...wnian motion
Cell membrane
Circulatory
system
Diffusion equation
Effusion
Electr...
Down syndrome
...nferior most of the time, special adjustments must be made to the curriculum. Some European countries such as Germany and Denmark advise a two-teacher
system where the second teacher takes over a group of disabled children within the class. A popular alternative is cooperation between special education sch...
Drug
...erbalism
Traditional Chinese medicine
External links
United Nations Drug Control A critical review of the United Nations drug control
system (Transnational Institute)
Dutch Jellinek clinic Shows the micro biological effect of several kinds of drugs on brain cells, using flash animation...