Summary: Chapter 9 - Homeostasis And Behavior

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• What 2 types of thirst are there? Explain both.

  • Osmotic thirst: when interstitial osmolality draws water out of the cells, thus inducing cellular dehydration. Especially when consuming salty or sugary foods.
    - Alleviating osmotic thirst requires only the ingestion of water.
  • Hyopvolemic thirst: when blood plasma volume is reduced.
    - Alleviating hypovolemic thirst requires water, but also sodium and other solutes.

• What is the difference bewteen VP and ADH?

  It's the same hormone, but with different functions.
  

  • ADH, referring to its effect on the kidneys.
  • Vasopressin, referring to its effect on blood vessels.  
    

• What are the effects of angiotensin?

  • Stimulates drinking behavior in rats
  • Stimulates the release of aldosterone from the zona glumerolosa of the adrenal gland

• What is the function of aldosterone?

  • Aldosterone promotes rentention of sodium in the kidney by stimulating sodium pumping  in the ascending limb of the loop of Hendle. 
    
  • This causes high sodium concentrations in the kidney, which causes water to be reabsorbed from the blood as it flows through the nephron. Thereby it reduces the amount of water excreted through urine. 

• What are the adaptions of Australian rabbits to their sodium-rich or sodium-poor environments?

  • Snowy mountain rabbits: excrete very little sodium in their urine. Seasonal changes.
  • Desert rabbits: excrete consistently high levels of sodium and have low aldosterone levels.

• Syrian hamsters will not drink salty water. How do you save Syrian hamsters in a low-sodium environment or adrenalectomized hamsters?

  Mix the salty water with sugar so that it masks the taste of the salt. They will the dink it.

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• Explain short term energy balance

  • Requirement for energy is constant, while consumption of energy is episodic. 
    
  • When more food is consumed than required, the excess energy is stored as adipose tissue, or fat. This stored energy is later tapped when the steady delivery of metabolic fuel from the intestines declines after a meal.
    

• Explain long term energy balance

  Animals have homeostatic systems that function to keep body mass within a relatively fixed range over weeks, months, or even years.

• What 2 phases of energy usage are there after a meal (well-fed state)?

  1. The postprandial phase. Occurs immediately after the ingestion of food.
     - A supply of metabolic fuels, in the form of sugars (glucose), fatty acids and amino acids enter the bloodstream (energy surplus).
     - Excess energy is stored.
     - Insulin acts to promote uptake of glucose and lowers the levels of metabolic fuels in the blood.
  2. The postabsorptive phase.
     - Insulin secretion rises, glucagon secretion falls.
     - In the liver, amino acids are converted into ketone bodies

  
  Other hormones that play a role are epinephrine, norepinephrine, somatostatin and glucagon. 

• What are the most common mechanisms for raising blood sugar levels without eating?

  • Glucagon release
  • Gluconeogenesis
  • Sympathetic stimulation of fat break down.