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This hormone promotes normal metabolism, turns off immune response, anti-inflammatory, increases blood sugar, resists stress, can harm if you have too much.
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Cortisone
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Hypersecretion of GH during the growing years causes
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Gigantism
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Hypersocretion of ADH, which impairs water reabsorption, thus dehydration is a concern...
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Diabetes Insipidus
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This hormone inhibits reproductive activities of FSH & LH
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Melatonin
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Hyposecretion of T3 (thryoid) in fetal/infancy causes dwarfism & mental retardation
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Cretinism- Hypothyroid in a child
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What glands are located above the kidneys?
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Adrenals
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What hormones targets the APG, regulates the production & secretion of hormones from APG?
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Releasing & inhibiting hormones from the Hypothalamus- it tells the PPG to make or not make Tropic/Non-tropic hormones
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What happens when there is too little insulin, resulting in too much glucose in the blood causing hyperglycemia? THe condition is called?
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes
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This part of the pituitary doesn't produce hormones, just secretes them?
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PPG
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These sex hormones are similar to testosterone, especially in females..
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Androgens
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