Your body temperature begins to rise during strenuous exercise in hot weather. Specialized nerve cells on the skin detect an increase in temperature; your brain detects an increase in blood temperature. You begin to sweat and as the sweat evaporates, more latent heat of vaporization is removed from your body and you cool down. In this case, your skin and brain acts as ________________ in maintaining homeostasis. A) stimuli B) receptors C) negative feedback D) self-corrective mechanisms