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Endocrine sytem

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  • What gland secretes testosterone?
    Testes
  • What does the cortex do when you are stressed?
    Produces more cortisol
  • what stimulates the secreation of adrenal glands ?
    the adrenocorticotropic hormone
  • Which gland consists of two lobes?
    Pituitary gland
  • Which hormones regulate growth and cause an increase in cell metabolic activity
    T3 and T4
  • Which lobe secrestes prolactin?
    anterior pituitary lobe
  • Which hormone makes your bones develop and increase in size over time?
    Growth hormone
  • What gland secretes adrealine?
    Medulla
  • What controls the amount of glucose in the blood?
    The pancreas
  • what glands secrete estrogen?
    Ovaries
  • The glands over the kidneys
    Adrenal glands
  • What reduces the amount of glucose in the blood by facilitating its entry into the cells?
    Insulin
  • Which hormone helps regulate the calcium in the blood?
    Calcitonin
  • What is the function of oxytocin?
    stimulates uterine contractoins in childbirth and breast milk expulsion after childbirth
  • What part increases the amount of glucose in the blood?
    Glucagon
  • What do hormones act as?
    They act as "chemical messengers" that activiate, stop, accelerate or delay many processes carried about by organs and tissues
  • What is the function of the parathyroid?
    it increases the amount of calcium in the flood