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Physiology II-9

Energy Balance

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What is energy input into the body? Consumed dietary nutrients
What is energy output from the body? 25% work and 75% heat
What is the basal metabolic rate? Minimal waking rate of internal energy expenditure
How is the basal metabolic rate determined? Thyroid hormone, physical & mental rest, comfortable room temperature, last meal more than 12 hours prior
What is external work? Skeletal muscle movement for interaction with the environment
What is internal work? Energy expenditure required to sustain life - internal muscle contraction and cellular work (mechanical, chemical, transport)
What is a neutral energy balance? Energy input = energy output (work+heat) - body weight remains the same
What is a positive energy balance? Energy input is more than energy output - body weight increases
What is a negative energy balance? Energy input is less than energy output - body weight decreases - stored energy used to supply energy needs
What structures in the hypothalamus regulate food intake? Arcuate nucleus, lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN)
What structures in the arcuate nucleus regulate food intake? Neuropeptide Y (NPY)-secreting neurons and melanocortin-secreting neurons
How do NPY-secreting neurons regulate food intake? Increase food intake and appetite
How do melanocortin-secreting neurons regulate food intake? Decrease food intake and appetite
What structure in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) regulates food intake? Orexins
How do orexins regulate food intake? Increase appetite and food intake
How does the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN) regulate food intake? Secretes neuropeptides like CRH to decrease appetite and food intake
What structure in the brain stem regulates food intake? Nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS)
How does the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) regulate food intake? Satiety centre receives input from LHA and PVN - important for short-term meal regulation
Which structure is the satiety centre for food intake regulation? Nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS)
How is food intake regulated over the long term? Leptin and insulin
How does leptin regulate food intake? Secreted by adipocytes, decreases appetite and food intake by inhibiting NPY-secreting and stimulating melanocortin-secreting neurons
How does insulin regulate food intake? Secreted by pancreas in response to rise in glucose concentration, stimulates cellular uptake & nutrient storage, inhibits NPY-secreting neurons
How is food intake regulated over the short term? Ghrelin, PYY 3-36, and CCK
How does ghrelin regulate food intake? "Hunger hormone" stimulates appetite, secreted in stomach prior to meals and decreases after food intake, stimulates NPY-secreting neurons
How does PYY 3-36 regulate food intake? "Satiety signal" regulates meal termination, secreted in intestines, increases during meal, inhibits NPY-secreting neurons
How does CCK regulate food intake? "Satiety signal" regulates meal termination, produced by duodenum in response to fat and protein, stimulates NTS (satiety centre) of brainstem
What is anorexia nervosa? Distorted body image and aversion to food, altered hormone secretion and low body temperature
What are physiological consequences of increased body temperature? Increased speed of chemical reactions, nerve malfunction, irreversible protein denaturation
What results from a 41℃ fever? Convulsions
What results from a 43.3℃ fever? Death
What are physiological consequences of decreased body temperature? Decreased speed of chemical reactions and decreased rate of metabolism
What is a normal internal core temperature? 37.8℃
What is a normal skin temperature? 20℃ to 40℃
What is the innate biological rhythm of temperature? Cyclical variation by 1℃ during the day
What is heat input? Heat gain from external environment and internal heat production
What is heat output? Heat loss from body surface to external environment
What is heat radiation? Emission of heat from a surface as electromagnetic heat waves, lose half of body heat this way
What is heat conduction? Transfer of heat between objects in direct contact with each other, gain and lose heat by conduction to air
What is heat convection? Transfer of heat by currents through air or water, combines with conduction to dissipate heat from body, convection currents carry heat away from body
What is evaporation? Loss of heat required to transform water from liquid to a gas, passively and actively through sweating
How does the hypothalamus thermoregulate? Integrates thermosensory inputs centrally and peripherally
What activates the posterior region of the hypothalamus to thermoregulate? Cold
What activates the anterior region of the hypothalamus to thermoregulate? Heat
What is shivering? Rhythmic, oscillating skeletal muscle contractions produce primary involuntary heat production
What is nonshivering thermogenesis? Increased metabolic heat in newborns by metabolizing brown fat
How does the body attempt to thermoregulate a high core temperature? Decreased muscle tone
How does the hypothalamus interact with the cardiac control centre for thermoregulation? Hypothalamus dominates over cardiac control centre, can affect MAP
What causes a fever? Macrophages release endogenous pyrogen, which raises thermal set point of hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre
Why does a feverish person feel cold? Person feels cold until new set point of hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre is reached
What is hyperthermia? Increased body temperature above normal range, excluding fever
What is heat exhaustion? Results from overactivity of heat-loss mechanisms - extensive sweating, vasodilation, decreased blood pressure, and fainting
What is heat stroke? Breakdown of thermoregulatory ability increases temperature and lack of compensatory heat-loss mechanisms
What is frostbite? Tissue damage resulting from excessive cooling, ice crystals form in cells leading to cell death
What is hypothermia? Body temperature below normal range, decreasing rate of metabolic processes and depressing CNS, respiratory, and cardiac function
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