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Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
When pathogens invade the body, cytokines produced as a result cause the hypothalamus to reset the body temperature by increasing the body's setpoint.
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Key terms in this lesson
- pathogen
- A microorganism that causes disease.
- cytokine
- A small signalling protein, released by cells such as phagocytes, that communicates with and regulates other cells of the immune system.
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