The best places to take your pulse are at your wrist, inside the elbow, at the side of your neck or on the top of your foot, groin, on your temple or behind your knees. The pulse felt on the neck is called the Carotid Pulse.
Hi, this post is prepared for the benefit of the physiology and biochemistry students who are going to appear in university examination.
This post contains almost all the systems along with their most important and frequently asked questions in different Indian university examination.
Hypothalamus regulates many vital functions of body like Endocrine functions, visceral functions, metabolic activities, hunger, thirst, sleep, wakefulness, emotion, sexual functions.
The neuron is defined as the structural and functional unit of the nervous system.It is having nucleus and all the organelles in cytoplasm.
Menstrual cycle is the monthly cyclical changes in ovaries & uterine lining of female, 4 phases are-Menstrual, Follicular, Ovulatory & Luteal.
In a healthy person, Blood Glucose level is controlled in limited range.
• In early morning after overnight fasting*- 70-110 mg/dL of blood. • First & second hour after meals (postprandial*)- 100 to 140 mg/dL.
Adrenal cortex hormones are steroids in nature. They are classified into 3 groups:1.Mineralocorticoids, 2.Glucocorticoids, 3.Sex hormones.based on functions.
The endocrine part of the pancreas has many rounded collections of cells called as pancreatic islets (the islets of Langerhans).Islets of Langerhans consist of four types of cells.
3 hormones -Tetraiodothyronine,Tri-iodothyronine & calcitonin.T4 is known as thyroxine & it forms about 90% of total secretion,where as T3 is only 9%-10%.
Hormone does not act on the target cell directly but they combines with receptor to form hormone-receptor complex which executes the hormonal action.
