Description
Write an essay answering the following prompt:
1. Why is it important to control the composition of the body’s milieu interior?
In your answer, you should include such terms as homeostasis, negative feedback, positive feedback, feedforward control, intracellular fluid, extracellular fluid, interstitial fluid, “set point,”the components of a negative feedback loops (stimulus, sensor, afferent signal, integrating center, efferent signal, target, response), antagonistic control, and pathology. Additionally, you should be able to describe a couple examples of pathologies which result from failure to maintain homeostasis

Explanation & Answer

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Running head: MILIEU INTERIOR
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Milieu Interior
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MILIEU INTERIOR
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Introduction
According to Simpson (2010), milieu interior is a phrase that Claude Bernard came up
with to refer to the extra-cellular fluid environment and its physiological capacity so that the
internal organs of a body are stable. The kidneys are very important organs in the body because
they have the ability to maintain the internal milieu. This was the reason as to why homeostasis
was inextricably connected to the functioning of the kidneys for more than a century. The
kidneys also have the ability to allow organism’s physiologic freedom to move in an
environment as they can and absorb the intracellular fluids. Scientists have been a...
