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Endocrine Control Sy

Endocrine Control Sytem / chap 9

The GlandsHormones
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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