Functions
Hormones
What is Chemicals released in one part of the body that travel through the bloodstream and affect the activities of cells
Hypothalamus controls what
What is secretions of pituitary gland?
Two types of Hormones
What is Steroid and Non-Steroid hormones?
Function of Exocrine Gland
What releases hormones directly to the organs
Pituitary gland
What is secretion of 9 hormones that control actions of other endocrine glands
Adrenal gland location
What is above the kidneys
Non-Steroid Hormones binds to
What is receptors on the cell membrane
Two parts of the pituitary gland
What is Anterior pituitary and Posterior pituitary
Thyroid Gland
What is regulating body's metabolism
Pituitary gland produces
What are growth hormones
Enzyme activates what?
What is secondary messengers - Calcium ions, cAMP (cyclic adenosine monophosphate), nucleotides, and fatty acids
What is Thyroxine
Pancreas
What is breaking down food using enzyme secretions
Pancreas products
What is insulin and glucagon
What does the binding initiate (binding of DNA control sequence)
What is transcription of specific genes to mRNA?
Parathyroid Products
What is a parathyroid hormone?
Islets
What is a cluster of cells that make up hormone producing portions of the pancreas
Parathyroid Glands promotion of what two functions?
What is proper nerve and muscle function?
Once connected to the nucleus of a cell what does a steroid hormone do
What is binding to a DNA control sequence?
What does Adrenal gland produce (for stress)
What is flight or fight response?