Blood vessels and sweat glands are known as effectors, changing your body when something is off. If you step out of a cool building into a hot and sunny day, you’ll probably notice that your skin ...

Adipose tissue has been ignored by anatomists and physicians for centuries, considered to be an energy storage depot with few interesting attributes. The well-documented rise in obesity during the ...

Nitrate has many physiological functions: (1) brain: preventing stroke and Alzheimer’s disease; (2) cardiovascular: lowering blood pressure, alleviating ischemia-reperfusion injury, preventing ...

Body tries to get rid of the acids through urine, sweat and exhaled breath. LDL cholesterol, uric acid, fats add to the acid load and are bad for health. In order to sustain human life, the body must ...

Homeostasis is the regulation of internal conditions inside cells or organisms, to create the optimum conditions for cell function. In this video, Greg Foot explains the role of the hormone ADH on the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The ubiquitin (Ub) domain protein Herp plays a crucial role in the maintenance of calcium homeostasis during endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress ...