Immune
This branch of the immune system, often called the "native" or "natural" system, is the one you are born with and represents your first line of defense against pathogens
Innate immune system
This hormone's receptor is on the Cell Membrane.
Peptide Hormone
Being "Overweight" is defined as having a BMI of what range?
25-29.9
What is the weekly moderate intensity exercise prescription for adults?
150 min/week
Triggered by a sudden drop in skin temperature, this dangerous physiological reaction causes a doubling of heart rate and a massive increase in ventilatory drive, which can lead to drowning before hypothermia ever sets in
The cold shock response
This cell is the "quarterback" of the immune response
CD4+ T Cells
This molecule is known as the Second Messenger
Cyclic AMP
This clinical term describes the natural, involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and function that begins around age 30 and accelerates significantly after age 60.
Sarcopenis
Although many parents track growth from birth, a child's height at exactly this age is considered the most reliable predictor of their final adult stature
Age 3
This class of air pollutants, which includes ground-level ozone, is not produced directly but forms when primary pollutants interact with the environment in the presence of heat and sunlight
Secondary Pollutants
This antibody is most commonly found in the blood
IgG
While Growth Hormone (GH) has direct metabolic effects, most of its anabolic actions are mediated indirectly by these substances produced in the liver.
Insulin-like Growth Factors
Often described as the "pear-shaped" phenotype, this type of obesity involves fat deposition in the hips and thighs and is actually considered more metabolically healthy than abdominal fat accumulation
Gynoid Phenotype
True or false: boys and girls show differences in strength at 7 years of age
False; differences are realized during puberty
Which portion of the hypothalamus is responsible for cooling the body down?
Anterior Hypothalamus
Unlike the complexes found on all nucleated cells, these specific proteins are found only on "antigen-presenting cells" and are required to hand off a foreign protein to a helper T-cell
MHC-II
This specific hormone is known to be the most biologically active of the thyroid hormones, even though its precursor is produced in much higher quantities by the thyroid gland.
T3
Hydrostatic weighing is based on this guy's principle
Archimedes
Why do men grow taller than women?
Estrogen fuses their endothelial growth plate sooner.
What percent of bone mass is lost per month in microgravity?
1%
Chronic exercise training can revert "sick" fat tissue back to a healthy state by shifting the macrophage population from the pro-inflammatory type to this beneficial, anti-inflammatory type
M2 Macrophage
This "timing hypothesis" states that the benefits of this medical intervention are highly dependent on age, where starting it early in menopause can reduce heart disease risk, while starting it late may destabilize existing atherosclerotic plaques.
Hormone-replacement therapy
Paper and pencil logs, heart rate monitors, and pedometers are common forms of THIS strategy to increase PA
Self-monitoring
What is the 80% rule?
Stop eating when you are 80% full
What secretes Bicarbonate?
The choroid plexus