| Intro to Endocrine System | Characteristics of the Endocrine System | Hormone Action | Prostaglandins and Pituitary | Other Glands |
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What are the 2 major type of glands?
Endocrine and Exocrine
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What is the endocrine systems function
To communicate with cells using chemicals called hormones.
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What are the 2 hormones?
Steroids and Non Steroids
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What are Prostaglandins?
lipids produced from the fatty acid, arachidonic acid, in cell membranes
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What controls the activity of the pituitary gland
Hypothalmus
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What do Endocrine glands secrete into bodily fluids?
Hormones
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What does the nervous system use?
neurotransmitters
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What are steroids formed from?
Cholesterol
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What do negative feedback mechanisms control?
Hormone Release
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What does the Anterior Pituitary control?
Releasing and inhibiting hormones
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What are certain glands that never reach the blood stream; not true hormones.
Local Hormones
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What does the endocrine system and their hormones regulate?
Metabolic processes within cells and the whole body.
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What are consisted in the non steroids?
Amines, Peptides, proteins or glycoproteins
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What is another name for the Pituitary Gland?
Hypophysis
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What does the Posterior Pituitary job?
releases stored hormones into the blood
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What do the paracrine secretions affect?
Neighboring cells
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What are glandular cells?
secrete hormones into the bloodstream
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Can steroid hormones pass through cell membranes?
Yes
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What are the 2 lobes in the Pituitary Gland?
Anterior and Posterior Lobe
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What is a Growth Hormones job?
stimulates body cells to grow and reproduce
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What do the autocrine secretions affect?
Secretory cells.
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What is the job of target cells?
They respond to hormones
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What does the hormone receptor complex bind with?
DNA
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In a negative feedback system, a gland is _____ to the concentration of the substance it regulates.
sensitive
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What is the abbreviation for Growth Hormone?
GH
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