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This is the primary role of the endocrine system in maintaining stability in the body.
What is maintaining homeostasis?
This brain structure controls the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
Hormones are secreted by endocrine glands into this.
What is the bloodstream?
These are what endocrine glands release.
What are hormones?
The endocrine system works closely with this system for rapid + slow control.
What is the nervous system?
Endocrine control is typically this speed compared to the nervous system.
What is slower but longer-lasting?
This type of regulation involves nerve impulses stimulating hormone release.
What is nervous regulation?
These are the two hormone types based on solubility.
What are lipid-soluble and water-soluble hormones?
This gland is called the “master gland.”
What is the pituitary gland?
Hormones regulate this system’s oxygen-carrying component production.
What is the cardiovascular system (RBC production via erythropoietin)?
This type of body process is regulated long-term by hormones (example: height changes).
What is growth and development?
Most hormones are regulated by this type of feedback.
What is negative feedback?
Lipid-soluble hormones travel in the blood using these.
What are carrier proteins?
These glands release epinephrine and cortisol.
What are the adrenal glands?
This system is influenced by hormones like estrogen and testosterone.
What is the reproductive system?
Hormones help regulate this system process involving ATP production.
What is metabolism?
This is an example of a hormone system using positive feedback.
What is oxytocin during childbirth?
Water-soluble hormones bind to receptors located here.
What is the cell membrane?
This gland produces insulin and glucagon.
What is the pancreas?
Hormones like aldosterone affect this system’s fluid balance.
What is the urinary system?
This major function involves controlling reproductive cycles and pregnancy.
What is reproduction?
This system connects hypothalamus to pituitary using blood vessels.
What is the hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal system?
Lipid-soluble hormones bind to receptors located here.
What is inside the cell (nucleus or cytoplasm)?
This gland regulates calcium levels using PTH.
What is the parathyroid gland?
Leptin from fat tissue interacts with this system to regulate hunger.
What is the digestive system?