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Osmoreceptors

Enoch and Kurt

What are Osmoreceptor

An Osmoreceptors is a receptors that control your thirst. When you are getting dehydrated your Osmoreceptors activate and release salt to make us thirsty and you consume water. When the release of salt happens, vasopressin is released and it increase your blood level. These is why we get thirst and are blood level increases.

How the receptors react

When you are getting dehydrated your osmoreceptors release salt into your bloodstream. This make sure that you do not die form lack of water or fluids. It is classified as a chemical receptors. Your blood use water to carry oxygen to your cells. Without osmoreceptors you body would have oxygen in it but your cells will not. Your cells, organ, and tissue use water to keep temperature. Because you lose water through breathing, sweating, and digesting, your osmoreceptors active so you consume water. When you get not enough water your lips and tissues will not be moist.

The organs that use osmoreceptors are the cireamventricular organs that are the vascular organ and subfornical organ. The kidney also works with it. They produce the the plasma and release salt.

The organs that use Osmoreceptors

Other information

"Osmoreceptors are any group of cells sensitive to plasma osmolality that are held to exist in the brain and to regulate water balance in the body by controlling thirst and the release of vasopressin."*1 When you consume water it help protect you spinal cord, joints, and tissues from harm.

Bibliography

*1. http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/osmoreceptors