The human body has many systems of major organs that are necessary for it to perform its various functions. Some of the most vital systems of the body include the nervous system, which controls and coordinates the body and includes thebrain,spinal cord, and nerves; the circulatory system, whic...
The lymphatic system also removes excess lymph fluid from the body's tissues and returns it to the blood. Nervous: The nervous system controls both voluntary actions, such as conscious movements, and involuntary actions,like breathing, and it sends signals to and detects signals from different ...
Every tissue in the human body has an immune cell in it called a macrophage. Macrophages play important roles in the immune system's initial response to bacteria, viruses and wounds. But beyond that, each tissue macrophage also has specialized functions, tuned to the needs of that particular t...
and moisturizing your skin twice daily can help. If that doesn't work, then you may need a prescription steroid cream. A nonsteroidal cream called a topical calcineurin inhibitor (TCI) that controls your body's immune response can also help prevent itching. Managing stress may help you control...
Neuroimaging studies comparing children in early puberty with Turner syndrome (XO) and Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY) to age- matched controls, indicate a dose-dependency of the X chromosome to decreased parieto-occipital and increased temporo-insular gray matter volumes (Hong et al, 2014; Hong ...
Many cancers can cause night sweats, but the most common islymphoma, which starts in parts of your body's immune system, like lymph nodes, the spleen, bone marrow, and the thymus. About a quarter of people with Hodgkin's lymphoma get night sweats and have a low fever. They may also ...
How does the human body control its temperature through homeostasis? What are some unique characteristics of the homeostasis of the endocrine system? Homeostasis is the central principle of physiology. Explain what homeostasis is. What part of the human brain controls homeostasis?
The two groups found similar bacteria species were less present in CFS patients compared to control patients. They focused on bacteria that produce butyrate, a fatty acid involved in regulating metabolism and the immune system. “Butyrate plays several roles in directing the body’s response to inf...
NexImmune, a self-declared "rapidly growing leader in the emerging field of antigen-directed immunotherapies" that claimed to be developing a way to get the body's immune system to target cancer cells, appeared on the Nasdaq just months earlier, raising $3.67 million in its IPO, priced at $...
What organ controls the response to stress, called the general adaptation syndrome? How does the brain / nervous system maintain homeostasis? What are the effects of the sympathetic nervous system on the heart? What part of the nervous system sets off the "fight ...