Ghetto Anatomy Endocrine System Test

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Produce and secrete hormones, regulate growth/metabolism/sexual development, respond to stress and injury, and homeostasis

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Exocrine Glands

Secrete outside the body through ducts and tubes (sweat)

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Steroids

Insoluble in water, carried in the blood and released near the vicinity of the target cell

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Prostoglanids

act locally, affecting only the organ where they are produces

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Prolactin (PPL)

Stimulates milk production

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Growth Hormone (GH)

Stimulates growth during childhood and fat distribution

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Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)

Stimulates cortisol “stress hormone”

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Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)

Stimulates thyroid to make thyroid hormones “metabolism”

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Luteinizing hormone (LH)

Regulates testosterone in men and estrogen in women (gonadotropin)

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Follicle-stimulated hormone (FSH)

Promotes sperm production and stimulates the ovaries to release eggs

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Oxytocin

Causes milk letdown in nursing mothers and contractions during childbirth

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Part of the Brian which is the control center for all regulatory activities of the body

Hypothalamus

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Condition in which levels of thyroid hormones in the blood are very low

Hypothyroidism

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Hormone that regulates when you sleep at night and when you wake in the morning

Melatonin

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Master gland makes hormones that control several other endocrine glands

Pituitary

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Hormone that reproductive glands produce for females

Estrogen

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TWo hormones produced by the pancreas

Glucagon & Insulin

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Gland that produces hormones that control the rate at which cells produce energy

Thyroid

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4 tiny glands that function together that release hormones that regulate calcium levels

Parathyroid

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General name given to water soluble hormones

Steroids

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The inner part of the adrenal gland

Medulla

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Hormone that reproduce glands produce for males

Testosterone

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Gland that produces melatonin

Pineal body

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Causes milk production in nursing mothers and contractions during childbirth

Oxytocin

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Increased blood pressure and heart rate when the body experience stress

Adrenaline

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Helps regulate calcium in the bones

Calcitonin

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Adrenal glands are located above this major organ

Kidney

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Disease caused by a failure of the body to produce insulin

Diabetes

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Produced in the adrenal cortex, keeps blood glucose levels stable

Cortisol

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Contains cells called the Islets of Langerhans

Pancreas

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Collection of glands that secrete chemicals that maintain homeostasis

Endocrine System

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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

Regulates water balance

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Thyroid hormones : Thyroxin (T4) & Triiodothyronine (T3)

Increase the rate at which cells release energy from carbohydrates

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Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)

Takes calcium from the bones to make it available in the blood

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Epinephrine & Norepinephrine [ Adrenal Glands - Adrenal Medulla ]

Increased heart rate, breathing rate, elevated blood pressure

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Aldosterone

helps kidneys conserve sodium and excrete potassium

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Cortisol

Keeps blood glucose levels stable

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Adrenal Sex Hormones

Androgens & Estrogens

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Pancreas

Helps the body maintain healthy blood sugar (glucose) levels

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Glucagon

Stimulates the liver to break down glycogen, raises blood sugar concentration

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Insulin

Decreased blood sugar concentrations, affects the uptake of glucose by cells

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Thymus Gland

Secretes thymosins, important to immune function

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