Endocrine Glands
General Facts
Disorder/Dysfunction
Hormones
Sex Hormones
100
It is a gland that produces hormones that help maintain glucose homeostasis.
What is the pancreas?
100
It is a type of chemical signal that travels through the blood.
What are hormones?
100
It is an abnormally high production of growth hormone in childhood when the bones are still growing.
What is gigantism?
100
It regulates blood sugar.
What is insulin?
100
They produce most of the sex hormones.
What are the Gonads?
200
It is the glands that lie on top of the kidneys and are each made up of two different cell types.
What are the adrenal glands?
200
It is the control center of the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
Winter depression caused by too much melatonin secreted by the pineal gland.
What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
200
One of the two hormones that are released by the adrenal glands when danger occurs.
What are Epinephrine and/or Norepinephrine?
200
They are hormones produced by the hypothalamus.
What are FSH and LH?
300
It is a gland that contains secretory cells that produce a hormone linked to sleep, fertility and aging.
What is the pineal gland?
300
They are cells containing receptors that are ultimately affected by hormones.
What are target cells?
300
It is a disorder due to insufficient production of GH in childhood.
What is pituitary dwarfism?
300
They are hormones that influence the secretion of other hormones and include: TSH, ACTH, FSH, and LH.
What are tropic hormones?
300
It is the hormone that ensures the contraction of smooth muscles during childbirth and milk ejection.
What is oxytocin?
400
It is a butterfly shaped gland that is involved in the regulation of the metabolism.
What is the thyroid gland?
400
They regulate the secretion of hormones.
What are feedback mechanisms?
400
It is an enlarged thyroid gland due to a deficiency in iodine.
What is simple goiter?
400
The two major classes of hormones that are water soluble.
What are amines and proteins/peptides?
400
They are the major category of steroid hormones that promote development and maintenance of male sex characteristics.
What are Androgens?
500
It is a gland that secretes hormones that act on non endocrine tissues and that influence other endocrine glands.
What is the anterior pituitary gland?
500
They are the three major classes of hormones.
What are amines, proteins/peptides, steroids?
500
It is a disorder in which the immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells, also known as IDDM.
What is Type I Diabetes Mellitus?
500
It is the main hormone produced by the kidneys that regulates red blood cell count.
What is Erythropoietin (EPO)?
500
They are the hormones, that when produced in early development, determine the sex of the fetus.
What are Androgens?
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