One popular and inexpensive birth control option is the basal body temperature method. Many people who have tried to conceive are likely familiar with the concept: You chart your temperature every ...

The hairs on the skin also help to control body temperature. ... These diagrams show the processes that take place when vasoconstriction and vasodilation occur. Image gallery Skip image gallery.

View a 3-D diagram and learn about related conditions. ... The hypothalamus is made of 3 regions that perform vital functions like hormone release, appetite control, and body temperature regulation.

Now we learn that it is also critical for controlling body temperature in response to stress hormones like adrenaline," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "It sheds a ...

New research reveals that fruit flies and mammals may share a surprising evolutionary link in how they control body temperature through circadian rhythm, unlocking new ways to study the insects as ...

While similar temperature-controlling clothes aren't new, they have been mostly confined to the military, emergency, and space worlds—not to mention that those pieces of clothing are heavy and ...

Some scientists are skeptical that this kind of body-temperature regulation can be explained by the powers of the mind. Dr. Maria Hopman, professor of integrative physiology at Radboud University ...

Body temperature was recorded every 6 minutes for three days on room air, three days on 10 percent oxygen in nitrogen (hypoxia), followed by 11 days on air. Results showed that in constant darkness ...

New research suggests that the fight or flight response that we experience in stressful situations may be controlled by a protein called TRPV1. In the mouse study, researchers found that TRPV1 ...