Hormones
Chemical messenger
What is a hormone?
Endocrine glands secrete directly into_______.
What is the Bloodstream?
Exocrine glands secrete here:
What are into ducts that open onto surfaces, body cavities and center of a hollow organ?
Secretes thyroxine
What is Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)?
This condition is an enlargement of the thyroid gland
What is a goiter?
This is where hormones are made
What are endocrine glands?
Enocrine glands affect cells where?
What is other parts of the body?
T/F
True
Stimulates adrenal cortex due to stress
What is adrenocorticotropic
A chronic metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar due to insufficient insulin production or cellular resistanceto insulin.
Symptoms include extreme thirst, frequent urination, and fatiue.
What is diabetes mellitus?
Hormones travel through this mode of transportation.
The tube...ha....Bloodstream
What is endocrinology?
The study of the endocrine system
What organ is both exocrine and endocrine?
What is the pancreas?
Releases estrogens and progesterone, ovulation and development of the corpus luteum in the ovaries, in males stimulates terstosterone produced in the testes.
What is luteinizing hormone?
What is ghrelin?
The hangry hungry hormone.
Hormones activate these
What are target cells?
This function of the endocrine system is all to do with homesostasis.
What is hormone regulation and secretion?
Sweat glands are endocrine glands.
T/F
False
From the pineal gland- helps regulate the sleep wake cycle
What is melatonin?
What is the neurohypophysis?
What is the Posterior Pituitary?
Glands are __________that secrete hormones.
What are organs?
Name 3 Endocrine glands
Pituitary
Thyroid
Parathyroid
Pineal
Adrenal
Pancreas
Reproductive
Salivary glands are exocrine.
T/F
True
Medullary hormones-fight or flight
What is epinephrine?
What are the 2 hormones of the Posterior Pituitary?
GH and Oxy