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| Hormone secretions which only affect neighboring cells |
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| Hormone secretions that affect only the secreting cell itself |
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Formed From: Cholesterol
Examples: Estrogen, testosterone, aldosterone, and cortisol |
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Formed From: Amino Acids
Examples: norepinephrine and epinepherine |
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Formed From: Amnio Acids
Examples: antidiuretic hormone, oxytocin, thyrotropin-releasing hormone |
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Formed From: Amino Acids
Example: Parathyroid hormone, Growth Hormone, Prolactin |
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Formed From: Protein and Carbohyrate
Example: Follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone |
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| activates another set of enzymes which transfer phosphate groups from ATP to their substrate molecules, specific proteins within the cell |
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| Lipids that are synthesized from fatty acid in cell membranes; syntehsied right before use- rapidly in activated |
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| located at the base of the brain where the pituitary stalk attatches to the hypothalamus |
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| Control the secretion from the anterior pituitary |
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| Action: Stimulates an increse in the size and division rat of body cells; enhances movement of amino acids across membranes |
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| Sustains milk production after birth |
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| Thyroid-Stimulating hormone |
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| Controls the secretion of hormones from the thyroid gland |
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| Adrenocorticotropic hormone |
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| Controls the secretion of certain hormones from the adrenal cortex |
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| Follicle-Stimulating hormone |
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Female: responsible for the development of egg-containing follicles in ovaries and stimulating the secretion of estrogen
Males: Stimulates the secretion of sperm cells |
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| Promotes the secretion of sex hormones; plays a role in releasing egg cell in females |
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| Causes kidneys to conserve water; in high concentration it increases blood pressure |
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| Contracts muscles in the uterine wall; contracts muscles associated with milk-secreting glands |
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| Increases rate of energy release from carbohydrates; increases rate of protein synthesis; accelerates growth; stimulates activity in the nervous system |
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| 5x more potent than Thyroxine, with the same effects |
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| Lowers blood calcium and phosphate ion concentrations by inhibiting the release of calcium and phosphate ions from bones and by increasing excretion of these ions by kidneys |
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| Helps to regulate the concentration of extracellular electrolytes by conserving sodium ions and excreting potassium ions |
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| Decreases protein sythesis, increases fatty acid release, and stimulates glucose synthesis from noncarbohydrates |
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| Supplement sex hormones from the gonads; may be converted to estrogen in females |
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| Stimulates the liver to break down glycogen and certain amino acids into glucose, raising blood sugar concentration |
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| Stimulates the liver to form glycogen from glucose and inhibits the conversion of noncarbohydrates into glucose |
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