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The brain stem plays a role in homeostasis, but it is the hypothalamus that gives instructions to the brain stem. So the gland of homeostasis is the hypothalamus and the organ of homeostasis is the kidney. One of the contributing factors of the brain stem is that the medulla oblongatta is both the cardiac and respiratory center.
