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13.Temperature Regulation CHAPTER 13 TEMPERATURE REGULATION The protected human being can tolerate variations in environmental temperature between -50℃ and 100℃. But person can tolerate a variation of only 4℃ in deep body temperature without impairment of optimal physical and mental performance. Changes in body temperature affect cellular structures, enzyme systems, and numerous temperatures-dependent chemical reactions and physical processes that take place in the body. The maximal limits that the living cell can tolerate range from about -1℃ at one end of the scale, when the ice crystals f