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What is Gigantism?
This condition is caused by excessive GH secretion in childhood?
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What are the hypothalamus and pituitary glands?
These are the two endocrine glands located deep in the brain.
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What is negative feedback?
This type of feedback is more common in the endocrine system to maintain homeostasis.
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What is melatonin?
This is the hormone associated with sleep and is produced by the pineal gland.
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What is our bloodstream?
This is where hormones travel throughout the body.
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What is a Goiter?
This condition is caused by a lack of iodine in the diet causes the thyroid gland to enlarge.
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What are the Adrenal Glands?
The glands in the endocrine system that are the primary responders to stress.
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What are glucagon and insulin?
These two hormones are produced by the pancreas to regulate blood glucose levels
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What is estrogen?
This sex hormone is more abundant in women.
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What are target cells.
This is where hormone receptors are found.
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What is Diabetes mellitus?
This disease is characterized by abnormally high blood glucose levels?
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What are ADH and oxytocin.
These two hormones are produced by the posterior pituitary gland.
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What are IH (inhibiting hormones) and RH (releasing hormones)?
These two categories of hormones are produced by the Hypothalamus in order to to regulate the secretion of other hormones.
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What is oxytocin?
This hormone promotes uterine contractions and is responsible for milk production in the mammary glands.
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What are the parathyroid and thyroid glands?
These two glands maintain calcium homeostasis.
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What is aldosterone?
Addison's disease is caused by a lack of this hormone produced by your adrenal glands.
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What are the gonads?
These glands are influenced by the hypothalamus and pituitary which send signals to produce hormones such as FSH and LH.
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What are calcitonin and parathyroid hormone?
The two hormones that work together to maintain calcium homeostasis.
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What is a signal transduction pathway?
The triggering mechanism that relays a message from outside of the cell into an action that occurs inside a cell.
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What are steroidal and protein.
These are the two basic categories of hormones.
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What is Graves' disease?
With this disease, your immune system attacks the thyroid and causes it to make more thyroid hormone than your body needs.
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What is the pituitary gland?
You would look at this gland for the cause if a person has diabetes insipidus.
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What is calcitonin?
This hormone is secreted when blood calcium levels get too high.
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What are androgens?
This is the collective term for the male sex hormones.
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What is the Thyroid?
This gland is involved in BMR.
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