Question | Answer |
Natural chemicals exert their effects on specific tissues | Hormones |
Located some distance from the endocrine gland with no direct physical connections between endocrine gland and target tissue | Target tissues |
nervous system to regulate overall body function | neuroendocrine regulation |
hypothalamus shares a small closed circulatory system with the anterior pituitary gland | hypothalamic hypophysial portal |
anterior lobe of pituitary | enohypophysis |
posterior lobe of pituitary | neurohypophysis |
hormones that stimulate other endocrine glands | tropic hormones |
male and femal reproductive endorcine glands | gonads |
outer portion of adrenal gland | adrenal cortex |
inner portion of adrenal gland | medulla |
hormones produced in the zona glomerulosa and help control the bodys sodium and potassium content | mineralcorticoids |
synthesis and reales of thyroid hormone | TSH |
synthesis and release of cortiocosteroids and adrenocortical growth | ACTH |
ovulation and progesterone secretion | LH |
testosterone secretion | LH |
estrogen secretion and follicle maturation | FSH |
spermatogenesis | FSH |
breast milk production | PRL |
promotes growth through lipolysis, protein anabolism, and insulin antagonis, | GH |
promotes pigmentation | MSH |
promotes water reabsorption | Vasopressin ADH |
stimulates uterine contractions and ejection of breast milk | oxytocin |
hormones secreted by the cortex | adrenal steroids or corticosteroids |
promotes sodium and water reabsorption and potassium excretion, chief mineralcorticoid | |