Gland
Estrogen + progesterone, and testosterone are secreted from this endocrine gland.
What are the gonads (ovaries and testes)?
This is known as the anti-pee hormone.
What is the anti-diuretic hormone?
PRL targets this tissue to produce milk.
What is the mamillary glands.
TRH regulates this hormone.
What is TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone)?
These glands do not use ducts to mobilize secretions.
What are endocrine glands?
This gland is located posteriorly to the thyroid gland.
What is the parathyroid gland?
This hormone has 2 functions, one known as the "milk-let down" hormone.
What is oxytocin?
ACTH targets this tissue to release corticosteroids.
What is the adrenal cortex?
An increase in long-term stress levels increases this hormones release
What is cortisol?
The anterior pitutiary utilizes this system to circulate its hormones.
What is the hypophyseal portal system?
This gland is known by these two names adenohypophysis and neurohypophysis.
What is the pituitary gland?
This hormone stimulates gluconeogenesis and glycolysis.
What is glucagon?
The hormones produced in pancreas's alpha cells target this tissue in response to hypoglycemia.
What is the liver?
This hormone is released in response to a low blood glucose or growth hormone level.
What is GHRH (growth hormone-releasing hormone)?
Target cell specificity depends on these 3 factors
The only exocrine and endocrine functioning gland.
What is the pancreas?
This patient's blood sugar is 761mg/dL because this hormone is not functioning.
What is insulin?
Growth hormone targets these 3 tissues to produce insulin-like growth factors and uptake nutrients to grow.
What are skeletal muscle, bone, and liver?
This hormone only functions in response to extreme levels of blood calcium.
What is calcitonin?
cAMP is one step of this hormone process to activate a cell.
What is the second messenger system?
These are the 3 zones of the adrenal cortex in order.
What is zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, zona reticularis?
This hormone targets almost every cell in the body and operates using direct gene action as a WATER-soluble hormone.
What is thyroid hormone (T3 and T4)?
Parathyroid hormone activates vitamin D from ________ to increase calcium absorption by the ________.
What are the kidneys and the intestines?
This hormone functions as an antagonist hormone to the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone pathway.
What is ANP (atrial natriuretic hormone)?
This runs inside the infundibulum delivering hormones to the posterior pituitary.
What is the hypothalamic-hypophyseal tract (neural and cardiovascular tract)?