Endocrine

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Allow cells to communicate with each other to regulate body cavities

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Chemical messengers

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Controlled release of chemicals from a cell

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Secretion

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Four classes of chemical messengers

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Autocrine
Paracrine
Neurotransmitters
Endocrine

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Stimulates the cells that originally secreted it

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Autocrine

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Example of autocrine chemical messengers

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White blood cells

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Local messengers secreted by one cell type

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Paracrine

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Example of paracrine

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Histamine

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Secreted by neurons to activate another neuron

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Neurotransmitters

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Example of neurotransmitters

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Acetylcholine

Question 10

It is secreted into synaptic cleft

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Neurotransmitters

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Secreted into blood stream by certain glands and cell

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Endocrine

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Example of endocrine

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Epinephrine

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Includes glands and specialized endocrine cells that secreted hormones in the blood stream

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Endocrine system

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A chemical messenger that is secreted into the blood

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Hormones

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The study of endocrine system

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Endocrinology

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Have ducts that carry their secretions to the outside of the body

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Exocrine glands

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Regulate almost every physiological process in our body

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Hormones

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Specific sites where hormones produce a particular response

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Target site / effectors

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Two chemical nature

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Lipid soluble hormones
Water soluble hormones

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Non-polar; include steroid hormones, thyroidnhormones, and fatty acid hormones

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Lipid soluble hormones

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Polar; includes protein,peptide, and amino acids

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Water soluble hormones

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Rapid degration of enzymes

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Proteases

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Rapidly degraded by enzymes

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Water-soluble hormones

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Types of stimuli regulating hormones

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Humoral Stimuli
Neural Stimuli
Hormonal Stimuli

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Directly blood-borne chemicals to hormones

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Humoral stimuli

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Directly by blood borne chemicals

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Humoral stimuli

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Stimulated by action potential, releasing neurotransmitter

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Neural stimuli

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Hormone is secreted to stimulate the secretion of ofher hormones

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Hormonal stimuli

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Chemical messengers secreted by neurons directly to blood

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Neuropeptide

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'Specialized neuropeptides' that stimulate hormone secretion

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Releasing hormones

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Prevents further hormone secretion once a set point is achieved

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Negative feedback

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Self promoting system whereby the stimulation of hormone secretion increases by time

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Positive feedback

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Proteins where the hormones bind

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Receptors

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The location on cell where the hormones bind

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Receptor Site

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Tendency for each type of hormone to bind to one type of receptor

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Specificity

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Often found in cell nucleus where lipid soluble hormones bind

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Nuclear receptors

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2 classes of receptors

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Nuclear receptor Membrane-bound receptor

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Proteins that extend across the cell membrane where water solubles bind

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Membrane-bound receptors

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Forms from combination of hormones and its receptor

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Transcription factor

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Fingerlike projections that recognize and specific nucleotide sequence in dna

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Hormone-response elements

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Another word for pituitary gland

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Hypophysis

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Small gland that about the size of pea

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Pituitary gland / hypophysis

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Small gland that rests in sella turcica which is controlled by hypothalamus

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Pituitary gland

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Pituitary gland is controlled by

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Hypothalamus

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Secretes hormones that influence growth, kidney function, birth, milk production

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Pituitary gland / hypophysis

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Endocrine control center of the brain

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Hypothalamusb/ hypophysis

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A stalk that connects pituitary gland and the hypothalamus

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Infundibulum

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Made of epihelial cells from embryonic oral cavity

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Anterior pituitary

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Extension of brain and composed of nerve cells

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Posterior pituitary

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Capillary beds and veins that transport the releasing and inhibiting hormones

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Hypothalamic-pituitary portal system