Thyroid Hormones

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Acromegaly

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Condition usually in middle-aged adults from hypersecretion of growth (thickening of the bones and soft tissues with noticeable effects on feet, hands, and face. -caused mostly from a benign tumor)

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Carcinoid tumor

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Slow-growing type of cancer that can arise in gastrointestinal tract, lungs, ovaries, and testes.

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Cretinism

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Condition in which the development of the body and brain has been inhibited

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Ductless gland

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Containing no duct, endocrine glands that secrete hormones directly into blood or lymph without going through duct

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Endocrine

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Pertaining to glands that secrete substances directly into the blood

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Gonads

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Organs that produce male(testes) or female (ovaries) sex cells, sperm or ova

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Hormone

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Substance produced within one organ and secreted directly into the circulation to exert its effects at a distant location.

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Insulin-like growth factor(IGF)

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A stimulator of cell growth and proliferation

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Somatomedins

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Peptides in the plasma that stimulate cellular growth and have insulin-like activity

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Somatostatin

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Inhibitory hormone that blocks the release of gonadotropin (GH) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)

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Target organ

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Specific tissue where a hormone exerts its action

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Tropic hormone

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Hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary that binds to a receptor on another endocrine gland

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8 major endocrine glands

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Pineal, Pituitary, Thyroid, Thymus, Adrenal, Pancreas, Ovary, and Testis

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Second Messenger

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Is the chemical that is able to carry out the intended action of the hormone inside the cell

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Cyclic adenine monophosphate (cAMP)

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Best-known second messenger

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Pituitary gland

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"Master Gland" of endocrine system and controls many of other glands. (Located in brain attached to base of hypothalamus)

Two lobes: anterior (adenohypophysis) and posterior (neurohypophysis)

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The Releasing Hormones

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Thyrotropic-releasing hormone [TRH], Corticotropin-releasing hormone [CRH], Growth hormone-releasing hormone [GHRH], and Gonadotropin-releasing hormone [GnRH]