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Positive Feedback Loops

Positive feedback loops occur when the output of a system enhances the input, resulting in self-reinforcing changes. This summary provides three examples: contractions in childbirth increase as oxytocin stimulates more contractions; the blood clotting cascade activates more platelets forming a clot faster; and lactation increases milk production the more a baby nurses. In each case, the loop ends once its purpose is fulfilled.

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Positive Feedback Loops

Positive feedback loops occur when the output of a system enhances the input, resulting in self-reinforcing changes. This summary provides three examples: contractions in childbirth increase as oxytocin stimulates more contractions; the blood clotting cascade activates more platelets forming a clot faster; and lactation increases milk production the more a baby nurses. In each case, the loop ends once its purpose is fulfilled.

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Positive

Feedback
Loops
Group 2
Homeostatic Control
Systems

• Feedback- refers to responses made after change


has been detected.
• Feedback is the process in which part of the output
of a system is returned to its input in order to
regulate its further output.
• Types of feedback systems
-Negative
-Positive
• A positive feedback loop occurs when the
output of a system acts to enhance the
changes to the input of the system.
• One example of a biological positive
feedback loop is the onset of contractions in

Positive childbirth.
• When a contraction occurs, the hormone
feedback loop oxytocin is released into the body, which
stimulates further contractions.
• This results in contractions increasing in
amplitude and frequency.
• Stretch receptors in walls of uterus send
signals to the brain.

Positive • Brain induces release of hormone(oxytocin)


into bloodstream.
Feedback • Uterine smooth muscle contracts more
during forcefully.
• More stretch, more hormone, more
Childbirth contraction etc.
• Cycle ends with birth of the baby &decrease
in stretch
• Another example is blood clotting.
• The loop is initiated when injured tissue
releases signal chemicals that activate
platelets in the blood.
• An activated platelet releases chemicals
Positive to activate more platelets, causing a

Feedback rapid cascade and the formation of a


blood clot.
• Lactation involves positive feedback so that
the more the baby suckles, the more milk is
produced.
• In most cases, once the purpose of the
feedback loop is completed, counter-signals
are released that suppress or break the loop.

Positive • Childbirth contractions stop when the


baby is out of the mother's body.
Feedback • Chemicals break down the blood clot.
• Lactation stops when the baby no longer
nurses.
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Group 2

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