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The gland near the stomach that helps break down food. It also secretes hormones that help control blood glucose levels.
The hormone secreted by the pineal gland that helps control your sleep and wake cycles.
What is Melatonin?
A natural hormone made by the pancreas that controls the level of glucose in the blood.
What is Insulin?
Consists of the glands that produce and release different types of hormones directly into the bloodstream. It regulates the body’s functions such as metabolism, mood, tissue function, growth and development.
What is the Endocrine System?
An endocrine disease in which your blood glucose is too high. In type 1, the pancreas no longer produces insulin. In type 2, the body doesn’t respond to insulin properly, and later in the disease these patients often don’t make enough insulin.
What is Diabetes Mellitus?
The part of the brain that relays sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex and regulates consciousness, sleep and alertness.
What is the Thalamus?
The inner part of the adrenal gland that produces the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline.
What is the Adrenal Medulla?
The outside part of the adrenal gland. It makes cortisol that controls carbohydrate and fat metabolism and the body’s response to stress. It also produces aldosterone, which regulates salt and water balance in the body.
What is the Adrenal Cortex?
Makes hormones that help control the way the body uses food, the levels of minerals such as sodium and potassium in the blood, heart rate, blood pressure and other functions involved in stress reactions.
What is Adrenal Glands?
the front of the pituitary gland that produces and secretes several hormones, including growth hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, prolactin, luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone and melanocyte-stimulating hormone.
What is the Anterior Pituitary?
An autoimmune thyroid disease. This disease is associated with an overactive thyroid gland which produces excess quantities of thyroid hormones.
What is Graves' Disease?
Nerve damage as a result of poorly controlled diabetes. It may lead to a loss of feeling, numbness, tingling or burning pain in the hands, arms, toes and feet.
What is Diabetic Neuropathy?
The part of the nervous system that regulates many organ systems, including controlling your heartbeat and digestion.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Is a condition caused by poorly controlled diabetes that affects the eyes. It results from damage to small blood vessels that are in the retina. It can cause vision problems and eventually lead to blindness.
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
Consists of the brain, including the cranial nerves, and the spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord serve as the main processing center for the entire nervous system and control all the functions of your body.
What is the Central Nervous System?
The elevation of blood glucose (sugar) that is above normal levels.
What is Hyperglycemia?
Low blood sugar.
What is Hypoglycemia
Glands that secrete their products directly into ducts. From the duct, they flow either into the bloodstream or from one cell to another cell.
What is Exocrine Glands
The stress hormone produced by the adrenal cortex.
What is Cortisol?
Enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by decreased production of Triiodothyronine and Thyroxine.
What is Goiter?
the process that unites and coordinates the brain with the endocrine system.
What is Neuroendocrine Integration?
the hormone produced by the posterior pituitary gland. It can cause less frequent urination and cause the body to retain water.
What is Vasopressin?
The substance made by the pancreas as a result of insulin production.
What is C-peptide?
a type of steroid hormone that mainly affects the metabolism of carbohydrates, is important in the body’s use of energy and has anti-inflammatory actions.
What is Glucocorticoid
The physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness of an individual’s day.
What is Circadian Rhythm?