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[Chapter 32] Endocrine Control Flashcards

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Animal hormones

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Cell products secreted from endocrine glands, endocrine cells, and a few neurons. In most cases, bloodstream circulates hormones to target cells

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Neurotransmitters

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Secreted by neurons into the tiny synaptic cleft between a neuron and a target cell

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Local signaling molecules

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Secreted by many cell types into extracellular fluid and broken down quickly; molecules only persist long enough to affect nearby tissues

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Pheromones

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Signals that diffuse through water or air to target cells in other individuals of the same species. Help integrate social behaviour (ex: female moth releases sex pheromone and attracts mate) Many vertabraes have vomeronasal organ in nose that responds to pheromones

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When was the word hormone first used, what is its origin, and who coined it?

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Early 1900s by physiologists W Bayliss and E Starling, from Greek word ‘hormon’, meaning ‘to set in motion’

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List the sources vertebrate hormones are (generally) secreted from

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pituitary gland
adrenal gland (2)
pancreatic islets (numerous cell clusters)
thyroid gland
parathyroid gland (4 in humans)
pineal gland
thymus gland
gonads (2)
endocrine cells of the hypothalamus, stomach, small intestine, liver, kidneys, heart, placenta, skin, adipose tissue, and other organs
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Endocrine system

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All sources of hormones in the animal body, linked structurally and functionally with the nervous system in intercellular communication

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How is the nervous system and the endocrine system linked?

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Share a few structures, issue a few of the same signals, most organs accept and respond to signals from both.

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In all animals, signaling molecules do what?

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Integrate cell activities. each tupe of signal acts on all cells that have receptors for it. targeted cells may alter their activities in response.

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Hypothalamus (part of the brain)

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Produces, secretes six releasing and inhibiting hormones (act on different endocrine cells in anterior lobe of pituitary)

Produces ADH (conserves water) and oxytocin (roles in childbirth, milk secretion).

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Pituitary gland, anterior lobe

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ACTH, TSH, FSH, and LH (stimulate the secretion of other hormones), prolactine (affects mammary gland development), growth hormone (affects overall growth)

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Pituitary gland, posterior lobe

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Stores, secretes two hypothalamic hormones: ADH and oxytocin

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Adrenal gland (one pair)
Cortex
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Cortisol (affects glucose metabolism) and aldosterone (conserves sodium)

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Adrenal gland (one pair)
Medulla
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Epinephrine and norepinephrine (these hormones interact, in conert with the supathetic nervous system, to help adjust organ activities, especially during times of excitment or stress)

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Ovaries (one pair of female gonads)

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Estrogens and progesterone (maintain primary sex organs, influence secondary sexual traits)

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Testes (one pair of male gonads)

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Testosterone (develops and maintains primary sex organs, influences secondary sexual traits)

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Pineal gland

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Melatonin (affects biological clocks, overall level of activity, reproductive cycles)

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Thyroid gland

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Thyroid hormone (affects growth and development, metabolism), calcitonin (lowers blood level of calcium)

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Parathyroid glands (four)

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Parathyroid hormone (increases blood level of calcium)

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Thymus gland

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Thymosins (roles in white blood cell functioning)

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Pancreatic islets

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Insulin (lowers blood level of glucouse), glucagon (raises blood level of glucose)

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Hormones induce changes in service of programs of…

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Growth, maintenance, and reproduction

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Three steps of cell communication

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Signal Reception (signal activates target cell receptor), signal transduction (transduced to a molecular form that acts in the receiving cell), cellular response (cell may make a functional response)

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What do enzymes do?

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Make hormones from a variety of sources

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Steroid hormones are derived from?

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Cholesterol

ex: testosterone and other androgens, estrogens, progesterone, aldosterone, cortisol

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Amine hormones are?

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Modified amino acids

ex: melatonin, epinephrine, thyroid hormone

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Peptide hormones are?

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Short chains of amino acids

ex: glucagon, oxytocin, antidiuretic hormone, calcitonin, parathyoid hormone

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Protein hormones are?

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Longer chains of amino acids

ex: growth hormone, insulin, prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone

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Signal response requires?

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Functional receptors

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Second messenger

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A molecule that is formed in response to an external signal and causes more cellular changes

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What kind of things influence hormone action?

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Type/state of target receptors, interventions by other hormones, feedback mechanisms, environmental cues, etc
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1. Cells need the right receptors for specific hormones
2. Different hormones often interact. Binding of one hormone may block, enhance, or have no effect on the cell’s response to other hormones
3. Concentration of particular hormone in tissue. More hormone molecules in the interstitial fluid around target cell, more likely to bind with receptors
4. Target cell’s metabolic and nutritional state
5. Specific environmental cues like temperature, day length, etc

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How do hormone molecules interact with receptors on/in target cells?

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they reversibly bind

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How do steroid and thyroid hormones bind to change gene expression?

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With receptors insider the cell

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How do steroid and thyroid hormones bind without changing gene expression?

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With receptors at the cell surface, triggers fast responses

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How do peptide and protein hormones bind?

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to membrane receptors. often, second messenger in cytoplasm relays signal to cell’s interior

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Hypothalamus

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Forebrain region, has neurons that secrete hormones

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Pituitary gland

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Attached by a stalk of tissue to the hypothalamus. in humans, no bigger than a pea.

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Posterior lobe of pituitary gland

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stores and secretes hormones from hypothalamus

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Anterior lobe of pituitary gland

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Makes own hormones, signals from hypothalamus control their release

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How do the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland work together?

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Interacts as a master control center, integrating much of the activity of the endocrine and nervous systems

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Releasers

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Call for the secretion of hormones by target cells

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Inhibiters

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discourage target cell secretions

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ACTH

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stimulates the release of cortisol from a pair of adrenal glands

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TSH

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stimulates the release of thyroid hormones from the thyroid gland

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FSH and LH

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affect gamete formation in the reproductive organs and other aspects of sexual reproduction

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GH

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growth hormone, has targets in most tissues. triggers secretions from liver cells that promote growth of bone and soft tissues in the young, influences metabolism in adults

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PRL

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initiates and maintains milk production in mammary glands after other hormones prime the tissues

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Thyroid Gland

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Anterior base of the beck, secretes calcitonin and thyroid hormone, which is a ix of two amines

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Thyroid hormone

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Central to metabolism and development

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How is the thyroid gland controled?

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By the anterior pituitary and hypothalamus, through negative feedback loops

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Parathyroid glands

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Four of them on the posterior surface of the thyroid, secrete PTH. Main control over the calcium in blood

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PTH

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parathyroid hormone, stimulates the breakdown of bone, decreases calcium loss in urine, and activates the vitamin D needed to absorb calcium from food.

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Vitamin D and PTH

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PTH activates vitamin D needed to absorb calcium from food, thus, PTH increases blood calcium. Vitamin D deficiency lowers calcium level in blood, which leads to oversecretion of PTH and bone breakdown

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Adrenal Glands

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Humans have a pair of adrenal glands, one on top of each kidney.

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Adrenal cortex

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Outermost part of adrenal glands, releases steroid hormones

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Aldosterone

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Controls sodium and water reabsorption in the kidneys, released by adrenal glands

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Cortisol

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Released by adrenal glands, affects metabolism and immune responses, maintains blood level of glucose, induces liver cells to break down their store of glycogen, supresses uptake of glucose by other cells. induces adipose cells to degrade other fats, and skeletal muscles to degrade proteins, makes immune responses wind down. controled by negative feedback loop

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When and by what is the cortisol feedback loop overridden?

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The nervous system overrides it during times of injury, illness, anxiety. this leads to very high levels of cortisol

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Adrenal medulla

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Inner part of adrenal gland, secretes norepinephrine and epinephrine during times of stress, excitement, or danger.

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Norepinephrine and epinephrine

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Same effects on targets that sumpathetic nerves do, bring about fight-or-flight response

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Long term elevation of cortisol levels?

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Disrupts production and release of other hormones, suppress immune function, impair memory. impact can be seen in people with Cushing syndrome

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Pancreas

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in abdominal cavity behind the stomach, has exocrine (scretes digestive enzymes into duct to small intestine) and endocrine functions (clusters called pancreatic islets, contains three types of hormone-secreting cells)

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Alpha cells

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Secrete the peptide hormone glucagon. between meals, all cells take up glucose from blood. When glucose level falls below set point, alpha cells secrete glucagon, which binds cells int he liver and causes activation of enzymes that break glycogen into glucose subunits. Raises level of glucose in the blood

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Beta cells

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Most abundant cells in pancreatic islets, secrete insulin, the only hormone that causes target cells to take up and store glucose. Releases insulin after stimulated by higher blood level of glucose

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Delta cells

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Secretes somatostatin, helps control digestion and nutrient absorbtion. Can inhibit the secretion of insulin and glucagon

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Diabetes mellitus

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Metabolic disorder in which cells do not take up glucose as they should, in result, sugar accumulates in blood and urine. This encourages growth of pathogenic bacteria, damages small blood ells in kidneys, permanent kidney failure. Uncontrolled diabetes also damages blood vessels and nerves, especially in arms, hands, legs, and feet

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Type I Diabetes

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Develops after the body has mounted an autoimmune response against is insulin-secreting beta cells. Most dangerous type of diabetes short term. In absence of glucose, the body uses fats and proteins as energy sources. Two outcomes are weight loss and ketone accumulation in the blood and urine. Can interfere with brain funtion, extreme causes may lead to coma or death

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Type II Diabetes

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More common form of disorder. Insulin levels are normal or high but target cells do not respond to the hormone as they should and blood sugar levels remain high. If glucose lvels are not lowered, pancreatic beta cells continue to receive continual stimulation and they will eventually falter

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Hypoglycemia

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Blood glucose level falls low enough to disrupt normal body functions. Rare insulin-secreting tumours can cause it, but usually after insulin-dependent diabetic miscalculates and injects too much insulin to balance food intake. Results in insulin shock, brain stalls as its fuel dwindles. Can be lethal, but injection of glucagon reverses condition

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Gonads

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Male = testes, females = ovaries. produces gametes and secrete sex hormones, including estrogens and androgens

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Puberty

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Post-embyronic stage of development when the reproductive organs and structures mature

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Estrogen in males

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Develops sperm

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Testosterone in females

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Affects libido

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Pineal Gland

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Depp inside the vertabrate brain. Secretes melatonin, which serves as part of internal timing (biological clock, rate of secretion varies depending on amount of light brain is responding to.

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Thymus gland

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Lies beneath breastbone, secretes hormones that help infection-fighting white blood cells (T cells) to mature, grows until person reaches puberty, when the surge in sex hormones causes it to shrink and its secretions decline

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How did vertabrates evolve so many diverse hormones and hormone receptors?

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Molecular evidence points to gene duplications and subsequent divergences through mutations

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Ecdysone

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Steroid hormone, controls molting in nematodes and arthropods, influences by environmental cues

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