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Up-regulation physiology

up-regulation (physiology)

process that increases ligand/receptor interactions due to an increase in the number of available receptors.


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is it too late?(sorry might be off topic)

... have to take general biology and they don't expect you to go in knowing a ton. Just understand the basic idea behind Cell Theory and simple physiology. You don't need to be a biologist to be an undergraduate in biology.

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by jyaron
Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:13 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: is it too late?(sorry might be off topic)
Replies: 4
Views: 136

The Kidney

... materials are regulated - sugar just follows a Michaelis-Menten pattern based on number of pumps, right-? I don't know enough about the physiology to know if more substances act like this too. Plus, the color formatting of the table - blue on dark gray - makes it hard to read.

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by Darby
Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:15 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Kidney
Replies: 5
Views: 193

Darwin and Racism

... etc can all be altered by changing chemical balances. I'm not saying that we're all hopeless automatons completely reliant on our genes and physiology - and lacking all free will. We're clearly not - though our biology probably influences much more than we're willing to admit.

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by AstusAleator
Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:01 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Darwin and Racism
Replies: 19
Views: 404

Re: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox

... a moment. Species, to me, are essentially ecologically stable gene cohorts. They exist as a "species" because their particular genes and physiology have enabled them to prosper and reproduce to a point at which there are many organisms that share very closely the same characteristics ...

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by AstusAleator
Sat Jul 18, 2009 12:46 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: The Colin Leslie Dean species paradox
Replies: 120
Views: 2138

In-depth wolf anatomy?

http://www.experiencefestival.com/gray_wolf_-_anatomy_amp_physiology

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by Mikey
Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:23 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: In-depth wolf anatomy?
Replies: 3
Views: 335
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