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Flashcards by Annabel Turner, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Annabel Turner
about 5 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| control of hormones | - by increasing/decreasing the secretion of hormones it increases/decreases the level in the blood - hormones are excreted in urine and broken down by the liver enzymes - Negative Feedback = the mechanism that control hormone secretion |
| steps of hormone secxretion | 1. Nervous system directly stimulates a certain gland 2. hypothalamus regulates the release of the hormone from the anterior pituitary gland 3. other glands respond directly to internal changes |
| How is the Humoral Stimuli is triggered? | Changing blood levels of certain ions or nutrients |
| How is the Neural Stimuli triggered? | Nerve fibre Stimulation |
| How is the hormonal stimuli triggered? | Hormone is released due to the production of other hormones. |
| What are the three types of hormonal interaction? | -Permissiveness -Synergism -Antagonism |
| Pituitary Gland... | - The master gland - 2 Main Globular Regions (anterior and posterior) - Secretes hormones that stimulate adrenals, thyroid, pigment producing skin cells and gonads - Secretes the growth hormone, Antidiuretic hormone, prolaction and oxytocin |
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