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Endocrine Control Sytem / chap 9

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