Living things have a remarkable ability to function and thrive in a variety of environments that are constantly changing. Despite exposure to wildly different temperatures during heat waves and cold ...

Well-being requires the maintenance of energy stores, water, and sodium within permissive zones. The brain, as ringleader, orchestrates their homeostatic control. It senses disturbances, decides what ...

Compared to cellular and organismal homeostasis, tissue homeostasis is not yet well understood. (Medzhitov) Cells have three division-of-labor relationships: (1) cell types perform different functions ...