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| What is the general name of the types of organs that produce hormones? |
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| What name is given to cells or tissues receptive to hormones? |
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| Target areas or target cells |
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| Melatonin is secreted by what gland? |
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| Pineal gland and is associated with sleep |
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| What is the effect of TSH, and where is it produced? |
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| Produced in the anterior pituitary lobe; stimulates the thyroid gland. Secretes and produces T3 and T4, which are other thyroid hormones. |
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| What connects the two lobes of the thyroid gland? |
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| Does parathormone increase or decrease calcium levels in the blood? |
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| What does glucagon do as a hormone, and where is it produced? |
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| Glucagon converts glycogen to glucose and is produced in the alpha cells that are in the pancreatic islets |
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| Which hormones in the adrenal gland control water and electrolyte balance? |
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| What is the primary gland that secretes epinephrine? |
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| Where is growth hormone produced? |
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| What is another name for T3? |
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| Interstitial cells produce which hormone? |
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| What structures are responsible for the production of estrogen? |
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| consists of glands that produce chemical messengers called hormones |
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| Chemical messengers that the endocrine system glands produce and are picked up by blood capillaries; this type of release is called a "ductless secretion"; Have many effects such as growth, changes and development, or maturation; metabolism; sexual development; regulation of the sexual cycle; and homeostasis |
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| Areas receptive to hormones and could be organs or tissues |
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| Develops from the diencephalon of the brain and secretes the hormone melatonin |
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| Thyroid-stimulating hormone |
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| Follicle-stimulating hormone |
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| Stimulates the contraction of the cells of the mammary glands, resulting in the release of milk, and causes uterine contractions |
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| a storage region for thyroid hormones |
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| Which occur in the spaces between the follicles |
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| A mixed gland in that it has an exocrine function and an endocrine function |
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| Converts glycogen to glucose |
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| Glucagon is produced in specialized cells that occur in clusters |
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| specialized cells which are the alpha cells that occur in clusters |
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| Pancreatic islets also produce this hormone that lowers the blood glucose level |
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| Where insulin is produced, stimulates the conversion of glucose to glycogen |
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| secreted after the ingestion of a meal and inhibits the secretion of insulin and glucagons from the pancreas; may play a role in increasing efficiency |
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