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| Adrenocorticotropic hormone |
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Anterior Pituitary
Controls the release of hormones from the adrenal cortex |
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| Thyroid stimulating hormone |
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Anterior Pituitary
Controls the secretion of hormones from the thyroid |
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Anterior Pituitary
Stimulates an increase in the size and rate of reproducing body cells, enhances the movement of amino acids through membrane |
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Anterior Pituitary
Stimulates milk production after birth |
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Anterior Pituitary
Promotes the secretion of sex hormones;
Plays a role in releasing an egg cell in females |
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| Follicle-stimulating hormone |
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Anterior Pituitary
Responsible for the development of the egg-containing follicles in the ovaries;
stimulates the follicular cells to secrete estrogen; in males, stimulates the production of sex hormones |
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Posterior Pituitary
Posterior Pituitary
Causes the kidneys to reduce water excretion; in a high concentration, increases the blood pressure |
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Posterior Pituitary
Causes contractions of the muscles in the uterine wall; causes the muscles associated with the milk-secreting glands to contract |
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Adrenal Cortex
Helps regulate the concentration of extracellular electrolytes by causing soduim ions to be conserved and potassium ions to be excreted |
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Adrenal Cortex
Decreases protein synthesis; increases fatty acid release, and stimulates the formation of glucose from non-carbohydrates |
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Adrenal Cortex
Supplement the sex hormones from the gonads; converted to estrogens in females |
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Adrenal Medulla
Sympathetic nervous system
Included increased heart-rate and increased force of cardiac muscle contraction, elevated blood pressure, increased breathing rate, and decreased activity in the digestive system |
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Adrenal Medulla
regulating heart rate, blood vessel and air passage diameters, and metabolic shifts; crucial component of the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system |
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Thymus
Affects the production and differentiation of white blood cells (lymphocytes) |
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Thyroid
Helps regulate the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and enhance the rate of protein synthesis; essential to the maturation of the nervous system |
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| Lowers the blood calcium and phosphate concentrations by inhibiting the release of calcium and phosphate ions from bones and by increasing the excretion of these ions by the kidneys |
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Parathyroid
Causes an increase in the blood calcium concentration and a decrease in the blood phosphate concentration |
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Pancreas
Acts on the liver to convert glycogen and certain noncarbohydrates such as amino acids into glucose causing the blood glucose concentration to rise. |
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Pancreas
Stimulates the liver to convert glycogen and certain noncarbohydrates such as amino acids into glucose causing the blood glucose concentration to rise |
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Pineal gland
Affects the secretion of gonadotropic hormones
-Regulates the female reproductive cycle
-Night and day cycle |
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Stomach
Stimulates acid secretion |
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| Atrial natriuretic hormone |
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Heart
Promotes the excretion of sodium ions in the urine |
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Kidney
Stimulates red blood cell production |
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| 1, 25 Dihydrooxyvitamin D3 |
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Skin
Stimulates bile and pancreatic juice secretion |
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| Secretin (cholecystokinin) |
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Small Intestine
Inhibits gastric motility;
Stimulates bile and pancreatic juice secretion |
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Placenta
Helps maintain the uterus in tis pregnant state and prevents spontaneous abortion |
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Testes
Stimulates secondary sexual development |
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| Releasing and inhibiting hormones |
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Hypothalmus
Regulates secretion of anterior pituitary hormones |
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Ovaries
Development and maintenance of the female secondary sexual characteristics |
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Ovaries
Promotes the changes that occur in the uterus during the female reproductive cycles |
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