Thirst

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) maintains osmolality by regulating water reabsorption in the principal cells of the kidneys’ renal collecting duct. AVP is synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the neurohypophysis. AVP binds to the G-protein couple receptor, arginine vasopressin receptor type 2 (AVPR2), in the basolateral membrane of the kidneys. This leads to transport of aquaporin water channels (AQP2) to the apical membrane of the collecting duct principal cells. Water permeability is…

Elizabeth Barron Winters OA May 10, 2017 Case study A case of Diabetes Insipidus The body regulates by balancing fluid intake and removing extra fluid. Excessive thirst is polydipsia were an adult consumes more than 4 quarts of any beverage per day. Excessive urination is considered polyuria were an adult urinates 50 ml/kg or more in body weight per two hours. Central is the damage of the persons hypothalamus or pituitary meaning the kidneys are removing to much fluid from the body…

Scanlon begins his attempt to show that desire does not play a role in motivation by drawing a distinction between two types of desires: Unmotivated desires and motivated desires. Unmotivated desires are things like hunger and thirst; these types of desires are involuntary. Motivated desires are the direct result of the conclusion that there is a reason to perform an action. Moreover, our reasoning motivates motivated desires — they are voluntary. According to Scanlon, given that there are…

Rousseau’s beliefs relate back to the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, trying to find a metaphor between empire’s rises and falls and Adam and Eve’s fall from paradise due to the thirst for knowledge that clearly doesn’t exist. Empires are rarely, if ever, Edenic in their beginnings and they often possess a thirst for knowledge before their expansions and consolidations even begin. The destruction on the left exhibits the characteristics of a fallen empire. The…

and thirst for righteousness This beatitude blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. In other words, it blesses those who seek right things on the same level as food/water. Righteousness in this beatitude can refer to a lot of things such as good relationships with others and God, morality and justice, generally righteousness seems to be represent anything good. Another way we could interpret this part of the beatitude is by looking at the necessity of ‘hunger and thirst’;…

Text Question: Describe how people view Siddhartha. Then, explain why he is dissatisfied with his life. Siddhartha was a child with many great qualities: he was “apt to learn and so thirsty after knowledge” and he filled his mother with delight “when she saw him taking long strides, saw him sitting down and standing up, [...] [and] greeted her with impeccable manners.” His parents remarked Siddhartha as a strong and handsome man, who “growing within him a great sage and priest, a prince among…

What is transcendentalism? What does it mean to be a transcendentalist? The definition of transcendentalism is any philosophy based up on the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical. Some of the more famous transcendentalists are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and many more. “They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking…

The article I chose for this week pertains to chapter thirteen pathological conditions of the pituitary gland “ Diabetes Insipidus”. The reason I chose this article was because I was curious about this disease and wanted to know about it. Diabetes insipidus has nothing to do with the amount of sugar in the blood, but an increase of urine output. Diabetes insipidus comes in different forms central and nephrogenic. They are both very similar in that the kidneys will not be able to store water…

What the Buddha Taught, by Walpola Rahula, is a general introduction to the Buddhist traditions. Buddhism is one of the largest religions with over 500 million devoted followers. Buddhism is not a traditional religion with god(s), but is the belief of human beings. The Buddha is recognized to be the first to achieve enlightenment. His teachings have transcended continents, and centuries. In the first chapter of What the Buddha Taught, the reader realizes that the Buddha was not a god, or an…

Compliance to an Dangerous Path Throughout history the compliance to totalitarianism is blamed on certain groups of people that enacted social corruption, to make it appear as if they were saving humanity. Leaders and associations, mostly focusing on Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, they manipulated their countries and made it resemble that they were improving the country and community, when in reality they ruined the community. This relates to The Crucible and during the Red Scare both time…