Glands
Endocrine gland that produces insulin
What is the Pancreas.
Is both an endocrine and exocrine gland
What is the pancreas?
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
What is the gonads?
Regulates when Thyroid releases its own hormones.
What is thyroid stimulating hormone?
Causes you to feel calm and sleepy.
What is melatonin?
Sits on the posterior side of the thyroid.
What is the parathyroid gland?
Target other endocrine glands.
What are tropic hormones?
Growth Hormone
What are skeletal muscles and long bones?
Secretes parathyroid hormone
What is the parathyroid gland?
Triggers the bones, muscles, and other organs to grow by doing mitosis.
What is Growth Hormone?
What is the Pituitary Gland?
Chemical messangers that regulate body functions?
What are hormones?
Prolactin
What is breast cells?
Secretes oxytocin.
What is posterior pituitary gland?
Released in stressful situations, important to the production of glucose.
What is cortisol?
Located behind the sternum.
What is they Thymus gland?
Type of hormone that passes through the plasma membrane?
What are steriod based hormones?
Thyrotropic Hormone
What is the thyroid gland?
Produces prolactin?
What is anterior pituitary gland?
Stimulates the kidneys to not filter out salt and water, causing blood pressure to rise.
What is aldosterone?
Located in the roof of the third ventricle of the brain.
What is Pineal Gland?
Small glands scattered throughout the body make up.
What is the endocrine system?
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
Produces antidiuretic hormone.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Increases metabolic rate
What is T3 or Triiodothyronine?