Essay On Thermoregulatory Homeostasis

Homeostasis is when the body maintains a constant balance through a series of monitored adjustments. Homeostasis must occur in animals in order for them to maintain a constant balance, despite the changes in the internal or external environment. Cells in animals are dependent on the internal and external environment in order for them to function. Homeostasis allows to the body to maintain a constant value in order for the cells to stay constant. An example of homeostasis is Thermoregulation. Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its blood temperature within a certain boundary, even though the surrounding temperature is very different. The purpose of the Thermoregulatory homeostatic control system is to balance thermal inputs and thermal losses in the body to maintain a relatively constant core temperature of
During this event, the cyclists will undergo Thermoregulation to maintain the constant core temperature of 37°C despite the changes to the external and internal environment.

Components of this thermoregulatory homeostatic control system are the initiation event, stimulus, receptor, control centre, effector and the response. As seen in the thermoregulatory homeostatic control system diagram (Appendix 1). This system detects the changes in the temperature through negative feedback in the cyclists and will work until the steady state has been stored (37°C). Negative feedback are the changes in the system which causes the mechanisms to reverse the changes of the blood temperature back to ‘set point’. The initiation event is when there is a change in the external or internal environment. The stimulus is the change in the blood temperature from the initiation event. Change in blood temperature is then detected by the thermoreceptors. Thermoreceptors are located both in the skin and the Hypothalamus. The thermoreceptors