ANFS445- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 439 pages long!)

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Animal and Food Sciences
• Course: ANFS445
• Professor: Erin Brannick

Document Summary

It is comparative: comparative approach shows similarities and diffs across animal species for a given func. Positive feedback: production of acute inflammatory proteins (pyrogens) in early inflammation induces fever in the animal. In local inflammation, factors released to raise body heat: you always get a fever when you get a virus/foreign body, during parturition, oxytocin stimulates uterine contraction. Uterine contractions stimulate oxytocin release: platelets that form a clot at a wound site release chemicals to attract other platelets from the blood, you have an open wound, flag down to attract more platelets. Insulin release by the pancreas after a meal stimulates cells to utilize blood glucose: variable: blood glucose, typically after meal, bg increases. In tnz: lower and upper critical temps--lower and upper limits of tnz, beyond these pts animals require increase metabolic rate to maintain core body temp. In heat stress must work to remove heat through evap.