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| OUTER SECTION OF EACH ADRENAL GLAND: SECRETES CORTISOL, ALDOSTERONE, AND SEX HORMONES. |
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| INNER SECTION OF EACH ADRENAL GLAND: SECRETES EPINEPHERINE AND NOREPINEPHRINE. |
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| LOCATED IN THE LOWER ABDOMEN OF A FEMALE; RESPONSIBLE FOR EGG PRODUCTION AND ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE SECRETION. |
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| LOCATED BEHIND THE STOMACH. ISLET (ALPHA & BETA) CELLS (ISLETS OF LANGERHANS) SECRETE HORMONES FROM IT. IT CONTAINS CELLS THAT ARE EXOCRINE IN FUNCTION. THEY SECRETE ENZYMES, VIA A DUCT INTO THE SMALL INTESTINE TO AID DIGESTION. |
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| FOUR SMALL GLANS ON THE POSTERIOR OF THE THYROID GLAND. SOME PEOPLE MAY HAVE THREE OR FIVE. |
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| PITUITARY GLAND (HYPOPHYSIS) |
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| LOCATED AT THE BASE OF THE BRAIN IN THE SELLA TURCICA; COMPOSED OF AN ANTERIOR LOBE (ADENOHYPOPHYSIS) AND A POSERIOR LOBE (NEUROHYPOPHYSIS). IT WEIGHS ONLY 1/16 OF AN OUNCE AND IS A HALF INCH ACROSS. |
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| TWO GLANDS ENCLOSED IN THE SCROTAL SAC OF A MALE; RESPONSIBLE FOR SPERM PRODUCTION AND TESTOSTERONE SECRETION. |
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| LOCATED IN THE NECK ON EITHER SIDE OF THE TRACHEA; SECRETES THYROXINE. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ADRENAL MEDULLA; INCREASES HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE. |
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ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE
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| SECRETED BY THE ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND. IT STIMULATES THE ADRENAL CORTEX. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ADRENAL CORTEX; INCREASES BLOOD SUGAR. IT IS SECRETED IN TIMES OF STRESS AND HAS AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECT. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ADRENAL MEDULLA; INCREASES HEART RATE AND BLOOD PRESSURE AND DILATES AIRWAYS (SYMPATHOMIMETIC). IT IS PART OF THE BODY'S "FIGHT OR FLIGHT" REACTION. |
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| FEMALE HORMONE SECRETED BY THE OVARIES AND TO A LESSER EXTENT BY THE ADRENAL CORTEX. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ALPHA ISLET CELLS OF THE PANCREAS; INCREASES BLOOD SUGAR BY CONVERSION OF GLYCOGEN (STARCH) TO GLUCOSE. |
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GROWTH HORMONE (GH)
SOMATOTROPIN |
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| SECRETED BY THE ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND (ADENOHYPOPHYSIS); STIMULATES GROWTH OF BONES AND SOFT TISSUE |
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| SECRETED BY THE BETA ISLET OF THE PANCREAS. IT HELPS GLUCOSE (SUGAR) TO PASS INTO CELLS, AND IT PROMOTES THE CONVERSION OF GLUCOSE TO GLYCOGEN. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND (ADENOHYPOPHYSIS); STIMULATES OVULATION IN FEMALES AND TESTOSTERONE SECRETION IN MALES. |
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| SECRETED BY THE POSTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND (NEUROHYPOPHYSIS); STIMULATES CONTRACTION OF THE UTERUS DURING LABOR AND CHILBIRTH. |
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| SECRETED BY THE PARATHYROID GLANDS; INCREASES BLOOD CALCIUM. |
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| SECRETED BY THE OVARIES; PREPARES THE UTERUS FOR PREGNANCY. |
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| SECRETED BY THE ANTERIOR LOBE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND (ADENOHYPOPHYSIS); GROWTH HORMONE. |
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| MALE HORMONE SECRETED BY THE TESTES. |
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| TENDENCY OF AN ORGANISM TO MAINTAIN A CONSTANT INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT. |
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| REGION OF THE BRAIN LYING BELOW THE THALAMUS AND ABOVE THE PITUITARY GLAND. IT SECRETES RELEASING FACTORS AND HORMONES THAT AFFECT THE PITUITARY GLAND. |
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| CAVITY IN THE SKULL THAT CONTAINS THE PITUITARY GLAND. |
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| COMPLEX SUBSTANCE RELATED TO FATS (DERIVED FROM A STEROL, SUCH ASCHOLESTEROL), AND OF WHICH MANY HORMONES ARE MADE. |
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