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Researchers say it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysentery or cholera. This more frequently occurs today as a result of antibiotic therapy. It is also a source of endocrine secretions in the human fetus.
The appendix - has no known physiological function in adult humans but probably represents a degenerated portion of the cecum that, in ancestral forms, aided in cellulose digestion. It is believed that the appendix will gradually disappear in human beings as our diet no longer utilizes cellulose.
For years, the appendix was credited with very little physiological function. We now know, however, that the appendix serves an important role in the fetus and in young adults. Endocrine cells appear in the appendix of the human fetus at around the 11th week of development. These endocrine cells of the fetal appendix have been shown to produce various biogenic amines and peptide hormones, compounds that assist with various biological control (homeostatic) mechanisms. There had been little prior evidence of this or any other role of the appendix in animal research, because the appendix does not exist in domestic mammals.
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What is a finger-like sac that has no known function in humans?
The appendix.
What Has no known function?
APPENDIX has no function in our body
Body structures that don't seem to have a function?
the appendix has no function There was an article on the internet recently that said that scientists think that the function of the appendix is that it stores bacteria so that if one's system is cleared of all "good" bacteria, the appendix can then start a new supply of those necessary bacteria. If this is true, then the appendix DOES have a function.
What is the function for the appendix?
The appendix currently serves no useful function in the human body. It is believed that the appendix used to have a useful function, but over the years, the human body has evolved in such a way that the appendix is now extraneous tissue.
What organ has no known function?
APPENDIX has no function in our body
What is as no function in humans in the digestive system?
The appendix, found at the junction of the small and large intestines, has no known function in digestion. The appendix may also be called the vermiform appendix.
What does the organ appendix do?
In humans the appendix is a vestigal organ and has no function that we are currently aware of.
What organ has no functions in human?
The appendix is said to have no function in the human body, but it actually plays a small role in the lymphatic system.
What is function of vermiform appendix?
It has no digestive function, yes It is [wrongly] thought to be a vestigial structure. It has recently been brought to Light that the appendix is a storage facility for intestinal flora, that is needed to repopulate the Gut, after some bio-catastrophe depopulates the Gut.
What system is the appendix in?
The appendix is anatomically part of the digestion system but its' function is part of the immune system.
what organ of the digestive system has no function?
appendix
What Has no function in the body?
I think that'd be the appendix.
