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Integumentary System: Thermoregulate In Body

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Integumentary System Skin is made of stratified squamous epithelium and inner connective tissue layer. Skin is made of several layers. This layer is top of the hypodermis. All part of the body has the stratified squamous epithelium, but in each of them has a totally different thickness. Hypodermis has the all blood vessels, nervous, and fat. Skin has the other layer as well called Single layer of Cuboidal cells, and this cell in sitting on the basement of the cell membrane. Another cell is keratinocytes. It is connected with desmosomes and become “spiny” when people get older. Dendritic cells are macrophages (WBC) around the epidermis and assist to protect body to fight with pathogen such as infection. …show more content…

Sternum corneum is the top part of the derma. It is dead cell stranded by lipids, and has hard protein, keratin to be protect skin from UV, infection, viruses, funguses, and etc. Integumentary has three functions for thermoregulate in body. “Thermoreceptors, Vasoconstriction/vasodilation and Perspiration.” When the body is hot, blood goes into the surface of the skin. Vasodilation gets massage from the thermoregulation that most of the heat is lost. By “Perspiration”, the skin starts sweating, with this function the body get cool

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