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Detecting Physiological Responses from Sensory Neurons in Drosophila
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2025
This video demonstrates a method for detecting sensory neuron responses in Drosophila using ligand binding and fluorescence imaging. Ligands bind to neuron receptors, causing calcium influx. The calcium binds to indicator complexes, leading to fluorescence emission, which confirms the neuronal response to the ligand.
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Measurements of Physiological Stress Responses in C. Elegans
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2020
Here, we characterize cellular proteotoxic stress responses in the nematode C. elegans by measuring the activation of fluorescent transcriptional reporters and assaying sensitivity to physiological stress.
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Measuring Physiological Responses of Drosophila Sensory Neurons to Lipid Pheromones Using Live Calcium Imaging
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2016
The forelegs and proboscis of Drosophila contain a rich repertoire of gustatory sensory neurons. Here, we present a method using calcium imaging to measure physiological responses from sensory neurons in the foreleg and proboscis of live flies upon exogenous application of a gustatory pheromone.
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A Community-based Stress Management Program: Using Wearable Devices to Assess Whole Body Physiological Responses in Non-laboratory Settings
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2018
Stress is an unavoidable and persistent component of life and holistic approaches for its management are being considered. A standardized methodology was created to demonstrate the feasibility of a breath-based stress management protocol that can be used with commercially available portable technology.
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Physiology of the Circulatory System - Concepts
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2019
Homeostasis Conditions in the external environment of an organism can change rapidly and drastically. To survive, organisms must maintain a fairly constant internal environment, which involves continuous regulation of temperature, pH, and other factors. This balanced state is known as homeostasis, which describes the processes by which organisms maintain their optimal internal conditions. To maintain homeostasis, organisms have developed structures with distinct functions. Physiology is the...
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These systems contribute coordinated changes rather than acting independently. Their combined activity can alter heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen use as an organism adjusts to changing conditions. Engineering studies therefore benefit from examining several physiological variables together, because a single measurement may not capture the full response or the demands placed on the biological system.
Internal and external stimuli both influence the measured outcome. Changing conditions may produce adjustments in cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, neural, or hormonal activity, while the resulting response can be tracked through variables such as temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen use. Comparing these measurements across conditions helps engineers evaluate how systems and users adapt.
The response is the biological change, whereas a biosensor, wearable device, or biomechanical system provides a measurement of that change. Keeping these roles distinct helps researchers interpret data correctly and connect recorded signals with function, adaptation, or performance. This distinction is important when engineered systems are evaluated under different operating conditions or human-use scenarios.
A typical approach links a stimulus or operating condition with measurements from biosensors, wearable devices, or biomechanical systems. Researchers track relevant variables, including heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, or oxygen use, and then relate those observations to human performance, adaptation, or system demands. The resulting data can guide evaluation of products, environments, and medical technologies.
Engineers apply these data when human performance, safety, comfort, or adaptation matters. The measurements support safer product design, ergonomics, rehabilitation, environmental monitoring, and assessment of performance under changing conditions. By relating biological function to engineered systems and operating conditions, researchers can identify how a design or environment affects the people using or encountering it.
Measured biological changes provide information that engineered systems can use to relate user state to device operation or interaction conditions. In medical technology, these measurements support responsive designs, while in human-machine interaction they help connect biological function with system behavior. The same engineering perspective also supports rehabilitation by linking physiological data to changing functional demands.