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What is a hormone?
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Hormone is a
chemical messenger secreted into bloodstream, stimulates response in another tissue or organ |
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Target cells
have ______ for hormone |
receptors
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Endocrine glands
produce _______ |
hormones
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hormone producing cells in _____ (brain, heart and small intestine)
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organs
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Hypothalamus Shaped like a flattened funnel, forms floor and walls of third ______
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ventricle
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Pituitary Gland Hypophysis
housed in ____ ____of sphenoid bone 1.3 cm diameter |
sella turcica
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Pituitary Hormones
OT (oxytocin) and ADH produced in _______transported by hypothalamo-hypophyseal tract to posterior lobe (stores then releases hormones) |
hypothalamus
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Anterior Pituitary Hormones
_____ (secreted by gonadotrope cells) stimulates production of egg or sperm cells LH (secreted by gonadotrope cells) mainly stimulates hormone production females - stimulates ovulation and corpus luteum to secrete progesterone and estrogen males - stimulates interstitial cells of testes to secrete testosterone TSH (secreted by thyrotropes) stimulates growth of gland and secretion of TH |
FSH
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