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Ch45 Chemical Signals in Anima
Campbell AP Biology
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Biology
11th Grade
01/07/2009

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Endocrine Glands
Definition
  • Hormone secreting organs
  • Ductless
  • Secrete chemical messengers directly into body fluids
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Exocrine glands
Definition
  • Secrete chemicals (sweat, mucus, digestive enzymes)
  • Into ducts
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Neurosecretory cells
Definition
  • Specialized nerve cells that secrete hormones
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Nitric Oxide
Definition
  • Local regulator with multiple functions
  • Secreted by neurons as a neurotransmitter
  • Secreted by white blood cells
  • Makes adjacent smooth muscels relax
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Growth factors
Definition
  • Peptides and proteinsthat function as local regulators
  • Must be present in the extracellular environment for cells to grow, divide, and develop normally
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Prostaglandins
Definition
  • Modified fatty acids, from lipids of the plasma membrane
  • Local regulators affecting nearby cells
  • Mainly Female Reproductive system
  • Also as defense mechanism
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Signal transduction pathways
Definition
  • Convert extracellular chemical signal to a specific intracellular response, thereby changing the behavior of the target cells
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Tropic hormones
Definition
  • Hormones that have other endocrine glands as their targets and are importnat in understanding chemical coordination
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Hypothalamus
Definition
  • Important role in integrating the vertebrate endocrine and nervous systems
  • Receives information from nerves and then initiates endocrine signals
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Anterior Pituitary gland

Definition
  • Consists of endocrine cells that synthesize and secrete several hormones idrectly into the blood
    • Hypothalamu
      • Releasing hormones - make anterior pituitary secrete hormones
      • Inhibiting hormones - make anterior pituitary stop secreting hormones
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Posterior pituitary
Definition
  • Extension of the brain
  • Stores and secretes two hormones made by hypothalamus
    • Oxytocin
      • Induces contraction of the uterine musclees during childbirth and mammary glands.
    • Antidiuretic hormone
      • Regulate osmolarity of blood (negative feedback)

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Anterior Pituitary Hormones
Definition
  • Thyroid stimulating hormone - regulates release of thyroid hormones
  • Adrenocoricotropic hormone - controls adrenal cortex
  • Follical stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone govern reporduction by acting on gonads
  • Growth hormone, prolactin, melanocyte stimulating hormone and enorphines

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Growth hormone
Definition
  • Protein consisting of almost 200 amino acids, affects many tissues
  • Promotes growth directl, and stimulates the production of growth factors
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Prolactin
Definition
  • Protein very similar to GH; could be encoded on same genes
  • Diverse effects in different invertabrate species
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Endorphins
Definition
  • Also produced by certain neurons in the brain
  • Inhibit perception of pain
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Pineal gland
Definition
  • Secretes melatonin - modified amino acid
  • related to light
  • Secreted at night
  • Link between a biological clock and activities
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Thyroid gland
Definition
  • Two lobes on ventral surface of the trachea
  • Key in development and maturation
  • Key in homeostasis
    • Thyroid hormones help maintain normal blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tone, digestion, and reproductive functions

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Calcitonin
Definition
  • Secreted by thyroid gland
  • Lowers calcium levels
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Parathyroid gland
Definition
  • Located on surface of thyroid
  • Secretes Parathyroid Hormone
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