BIOL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sepsis, Gastroparesis, Intestinal Epithelium
5 Apr 2016
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Moonlight (lunar cycle) is likely the zietgebar for the the menstrual cycle. Physiome detects that light thorught the speicalized sensory organs (eyes), sens the info to visual processing centres in the brain where it is analyzed and tehn relays that info to the central clock of the brain. Info from the cenral os then sent to peripheral clocks in a variety of organs and tissues. If light is the primary zeitgebar of the physiome then the second major zeitgeber is eating/food consumption . Gastrointestinal tract (gi tract) it"s a perforated tube sepsis (when you get a hole in tube) 6 muscular sphincters (valves) partially segregate function of tube: prevent lumen contents from moving backwards, they are controlled by the second brain. Pyloric sphincter in duodenum (small intestine) These processes go on at all times (ie. in the presence and absence of what we think of as food in the tube)
