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What are the 3 functional anatomical elements of the endocrine system?
✓ Primary Endocrine Glands
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✓ Accessory Endocrinocytes all over the body systems
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✓ Hormones
What is the function of the endocrine system?
✓ Control functions of other systems in the body to maintain physiologic
homeostasis
How is the endocrine system controlled?
✓ By nerve impulses, neurotransmitters, and the hormones produced by
itself
Describe the overall steps of endocrine communication
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✓ 1. Starts w/stimulation -- usually a change in internal/external
environment
✓ 2. Endocrine cells produce hormones
✓ 3. The signal (hormone) travels through blood circulation
✓ 4. The hormone reaches a target cell w/receptors for the hormone
✓ 5. Ligand binds to receptor
✓ 6. Creates a signal transduction
✓ 7. Signal transduction leads to a physiologic response
What can endocrine cells be stimulated by?
✓ Homeostatic changes in biomolecules and minerals in the plasma (Na,
K, Ca, GLU, etc)
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✓ By other hormones (example hypothalamic hormones and pituitary
hormones
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✓ By nerve impulses and neurotransmitters
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✓ By immune responses ---pro/anti inflammatory cytokines
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What is the difference between Endocrine and Exocrine glands?
✓ Endocrine --closed--release hormones into the bloodstream
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✓ Exocrine--open--release hormones directly onto body surfaces/cavities
What are the main endocrine glands?
What is a defining feature of all these glands?
✓ Hypothalamus
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✓ Pituitary Gland
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✓ Pineal Gland
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✓ They are neuroendocrine glands --contain both endocrine and nervous
tissues
What are the secondary endocrine glands? (7)
Why are they called secondary?
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✓ Thyroid
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✓ Parathyroid
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✓ Thymus
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✓ Adrenals
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✓ Pancreas
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✓ Ovaries
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✓ Testis
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✓ These glands are controlled by the main glands. They produce the
terminal hormones
What is an example of a mixed gland?
Why?
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