Endocrine System
The chemical messengers of the endocrine system.
What are hormones?
The anterior lobe is approximately how much of the weight of the pituitary gland.
What is 75%?
This hormone is produced in the pancreas to decrease blood glucose levels.
What is insulin?
Epinephrine is commonly known as this.
What is adrenaline?
The three glands located within the diencephalon.
What are the hypothalamus, the pituitary, and the pineal glands?
Organs that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream.
What are endocrine glands?
The stalk-like structure that attaches the pituitary to the hypothalamus.
What is the infundibulum?
Produced in the anterior pituitary gland, this hormone stimulates milk production from the mammary glands.
What is prolactin?
Hormone which decreases blood calcium levels.
What is calcitonin?
The butterfly shaped gland anterolateral to the trachea.
What is the thyroid gland?
Hormones only affect cells with corresponding receptors which are called ___________.
What are target cells?
The part of the pituitary which does not produce hormones, but stores and releases them.
What is the posterior lobe?
This hormone maintains the circadian rhythm and is produced in the ______ gland.
Pituitary hormone which causes the kidneys to absorb more water and helps to maintain blood pressure.
What is the antidiuretic hormone (ADH)?
Name the outer region of the glands attached superiorly to the kidneys.
What is the adrenal cortex?
The endocrine system shares regulatory functions with the nervous system in cells that have receptors for both hormones and neurotransmitters. The joint system is called ________.
What is the neuroendocrine system?
Group of hormones produced in the pituitary that inhibit pain and are released during stressful situations.
What are endorphins?
This hormone stimulates protein synthesis for muscle and bone growth, maintenance, and repair.
What is the growth hormone?
It's presence in blood and urine indicates pregnancy and killed the bunnies.
What is human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)?
Producer of thymosin and thymopoietin, the thymus gland is located here.
What is posterior to the sternum?
This movement brings hormone levels toward homeostasis.
What is negative feedback regulation
Pitocin, used intravenously to stimulate labor and childbirth in pregnant females, is the synthetic version of _________.
What is Oxytocin?
Produced in the adrenal cortex, this hormone maintains sodium levels by causing the kidneys to reabsorb sodium and excrete potassium.
What is aldosterone?
Hormone that alters the properties of connective tissue by activating collagenase.
What is relaxin?
This is dual functional and lies inferior to the stomach.
What is the pancreas?