Exam 10: Internal Regulation

The increasing prevalence of obesity obviously relates to the increased availability of our diet and ____.

Animals eat more frequent (but normal size) meals after damage to the ____. They eat larger meals (but at normal frequency) after damage to the ____.

Vasopressin increases blood pressure by constricting the blood vessels.

When the range maintained by homeostatic processes is very narrow, what is it called?

The brain gets part of its information regarding low osmotic pressure from:

In the lateral hypothalamus, cell bodies are to ____ as axons passing through are to ____.

Aldosterone triggers:

Abnormal levels of which neurotransmitter often have been found in bulimics?

What is the main site for absorption of digested food into the bloodstream?

In sham-feeding, animals are:

If an experimenter cools the preoptic area of an animal in a warm environment, the animal will:

The tendency of water to flow across a semipermeable membrane from the area of low solute concentration to the area of higher concentration is termed:

Which hormone, released by the posterior pituitary, both raises blood pressure and enables the kidneys to reabsorb water?

Individuals who have lost sodium and other solutes:

Most mammals at about the age of weaning lose the intestinal enzyme lactase.

Leptin directly activates receptors in the part of the hypothalamus known as the:

Damage to the ventromedial hypothalamus leads to eating:

Which of the following would result in an increase in body weight?

Orlistat (Xenical) can reduce body weight by:

The hormone aldosterone results in the: