Blood Pressure Homeostasis

Abstract:
Methods and Materials:
When the human body’s blood pressure spike or lowers, it will return back to homeostasis. One
Materials:
way to test this is by measuring blood pressure before, right after and then after waiting to recover
3 Male Test subjects (Ages ranging from 15-16)
from exercise. The results all followed the same pattern, the blood pressure before was at
Sphygmomanometer - Blood Pressure Monitor
homeostasis and it increased due to the exercise. Then dropped back to homeostasis about 10
Methods:
minutes after exercising.This shows how the human body maintains homeostasis in blood pressure.
3 main stages in experiment
Introduction: Homeostasis is the equilibrium of the body and its systems. The brain can
Control: This was a measure of blood pressure while going through a typical day and
involuntarily (meaning that you don’t have to think about it) manage its functions to keep its
completing work.
systems and functions stable using the hormone ANP (Derreck Chu on Youtube). More
Active:
specifically, it can control the blood vessels’ and arteries’ dilation to keep our blood pressure in
A measurement of blood pressure was taken 10 minutes prior to running 100 yards.
check. It is known that this takes place but to prove it, more experimentation was needed. Our
A measurement of blood pressure was taken following shortly after running 100
experiments capture everyday life, spikes of activity, and the dips while one rests. In the
yards.
experiments, we expect blood pressure to change then change back to normal shortly after.
A measurement of blood pressure was taken 10 minutes after running 100 yards
Discussion/Conclusion:
Resting:
The research confirmed the hypothesis that although it may spike or dip, blood pressure will always
A measurement of blood pressure was taken 10 minutes prior to resting for 15
return to a safe and stable level due to homeostasis. Seeing as the control for participant 1 was 128/83,
minutes.
the measure while running spiked to 144/76 then in ten minutes returned back to 121/73. Following
A measurement of blood pressure was taken shortly after the 15 minute resting
this, the resting measurement was 102/62, where an obvious dip in blood pressure occurred. 10 minutes
period.
later and the blood pressure rose back to a level near the control. Participants 2 and 3 showed similar
A measurement of blood pressure was taken shortly after the 15 minute resting
patterns of blood pressure readings while put through the same test under the same conditions. The
period.
tests went well aside from not following the instrustructions for the sphygmomanometer initially,
which caused tests to be redone. The numbers seen are correct while tests were done
Participant Control -10 min 100 yrd 10 min -10 min Rest for 15 10 min
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Dash min
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3 129/69 129/69 142/71 115/55 115/55 100/65 116/72