HOMEOSTATIC REGULATION

NEGATIVE FEEDBACK POSITIVE FEEDBACK

When food enters the
The Bone Marrow stomach, the stomach
produces RBCs stretches and stimulates
stretch receptors
EFFECTOR

The stretch receptors

send a message to the
cerebral cortex via the
vagus nerve
The cerebral cortex sends
The Kidneys
produces
messages to the gastric
erythropoietin glands, specifically the
parietal cells, to secrete
CONTROL CENTER Response:
Increases RBCs
and Hemoglobin, Parietal Cells produces
Detected by the raising the ability
POSITIVE
HCl that converts
of blood to FEEDBACK pepsinogen to pepsin to
Heme Protein transport O2 LOOP digest protein
RECEPTOR

As the digestion continues,

more pepsinogen is
STIMULUS converted to pepsin until
Decrease in O2 thru the digestion of protein
circulating blood completes.