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Endocrine Control Sy
Endocrine Control Sytem / chap 9
| The Glands | Hormones |
|---|---|
| Hypothamalus Posterior Lobe of Pituitary Gland | Oxytocin, Antidurectic Hormone (ADH) |
| Anterior Lobe of Pituitary | Growth hormone, Prolactin, Thyroid-stimulating hormone, Adrenocorticotrpic, Gonadotropic |
| Thyroid Gland | Thyroxine (T4) and Triodothyroniie (T3), Calcitonin |
| Parathyroid Gland | Parathyroid hormone |
| Islets of Langerhans of Pancreas | Insulin, Glucagon |
| Adrenal Medulla | Epinephrine and noreinephrine |
| Adrenal Cortex | Mineralocorticoids (aldosterone), Glucocorticoids |
| Pineal Gland | Melatonin |
| Ovary | Estrogens (estradiol), Progesterone |
| Testis | Testosterone, Inhibin |
| Hypothalamus | Relasing and inhibiting hormones |
| What are Hormones? | chemical messengers that help regulate many body functions |
| What are Endocrine Glands? | They lack ducts and secrete hormones into the surrounding interstital fluid or into blood |
| What are exocrine glands? | release secretions into ducts. |
| What is Homeostasis? | The relatively constant, balance internal enviroment of the body, the automatic tendency to maintain balnce, or steady state |
| What is Tropic? | A hormone that helps regualte another endocrine gland. |
| What is negative Feedback? | A homestatic system in which a change in some condition triggers a response that reeverses the changed condition, restoring steady state. |
| What is Positive Feedback? | A homeostatic system in which change in some condition that varies from steady state sets off a series of events that intensify the change |
| Hormones combine with receptors on ? | Target Cells |
| What serves as the link between nervous and endocrine systems? | Hypothalamus |
| What hormone stimulates contraction of the uterus? | Oxytocin |
| What hormone stimulates milk production in the lactating breast/ | Prolactin |
| Growth hormone is produce by? | Anterior Pituitary Gland |
| Oxytocin is produce by the? | Hypothamalus |
| The main function of the Thyroid hormones is to stimulate? | The rate of metabolism |
| in addition to the thyroid hormones, the thyroid gland produces a hormone called? | Calcitonin |
| A hormone that raises the level of sodium in ther blood is? | Aldeserone |
Created by:
Chris Flaig
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