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HOMEOSTASIS IN MAMMALS Homeostasis is method by which an organism controls it internal environment. It does this by keeping the level of a number of substances in the body at a constant level (at a set point). If levels of substances move away from that set points then corrective mechanisms take place which restore the level to the set point. In this essay I am going to talk about three types of Homeostasis, these are: glucose regulation, osmoregulation and thermoregulation. Glucose regulation is simply the regulation of the level of glucose in the blood. Thee amount of glucose in the blood is commonly referred to as the blood sugar level. A rise in the blood sugar level (caused, for example by eating a meal) will be detected by the pancreas and the insulin-producing tissue, called the islets of Langerhans release the hormone called insulin, this causes increased absorption of glucose by cells,...

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